# SL(2,Z)-action for ribbon quasi-Hopf algebras

**Authors:** Vanda Farsad, Azat M. Gainutdinov, Ingo Runkel

arXiv: 1702.01086 · 2019-10-24

## TL;DR

This paper investigates the structure and SL(2,Z)-action of the universal Hopf algebra associated with finite-dimensional ribbon quasi-Hopf algebras, aiming to support applications in logarithmic conformal field theories.

## Contribution

It explicitly characterizes the Hopf algebra structure of L=A* for ribbon quasi-Hopf algebras and computes the SL(2,Z)-action on the center, providing foundational results for conformal field theory applications.

## Key findings

- L=A* with coadjoint action is the universal Hopf algebra for the category
- Explicit conditions for A to be factorisable are derived
- Lyubashenko's SL(2,Z)-action on the center is computed

## Abstract

We study the universal Hopf algebra L of Majid and Lyubashenko in the case that the underlying ribbon category is the category of representations of a finite dimensional ribbon quasi-Hopf algebra A. We show that L=A* with coadjoint action and compute the Hopf algebra structure morphisms of L in terms of the defining data of A. We give explicitly the condition on A which makes Rep(A) factorisable and compute Lyubashenko's projective SL(2,Z)-action on the centre of A in this case.   The point of this exercise is to provide the groundwork for the applications to ribbon categories arising in logarithmic conformal field theories - in particular symplectic fermions and W_p-models - and to test a conjectural non-semisimple Verlinde formula.

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