Classification of Metaplectic Fusion Categories

Abstract

In this paper, we study a family of fusion and modular systems realizing fusion categories Grothendieck equivalent to the representation category for so(2p+1)2. These categories describe non-abelian anyons dubbed ‘metaplectic anyons’. We obtain explicit expressions for all the F- and R-symbols. Based on these, we conjecture a classification for their monoidal equivalence classes from an analysis of their gauge invariants and define a function which gives us the number of classes.

Keywords

• fusion category
• metaplectic anyons
• gauge invariants