Let C_n denote the representation category of a finite supergroup generated by purely odd n-dimensional vector space. We compute the Brauer-Picard group BrPic(C_n) of C_n. This is done by identifying BrPic(C_n) with the group of braided tensor autoequivalences of the Drinfeld center of C_n and studying the action of the latter group on the categorical Lagrangian Grassmannian of C_n. We show that this action corresponds to the action of a projective symplectic group on a classical Lagrangian Grassmannian.
We develop methods of computation of the Brauer-Picard groups of fusion categories and apply them to compute such groups for several classes of fusion categories of prime power dimension: representation categories of elementary abelian groups with twisted associativity constraint, extra special p-groups, and the Kac-Paljutkin Hopf algebra. We conclude that many finite groups of Lie type occur as composition factors of the Brauer-Picard groups of pointed fusion categories.
We prove that every finite symmetric integral tensor category $mathcal{C}$ with the Chevalley property over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic $p>2$ admits a symmetric fiber functor to $text{sVec}$. This proves Ostriks conjecture cite[Conjecture 1.3]{o} in this case. Equivalently, we prove that there exists a unique finite supergroup scheme $mathcal{G}$ over $k$ and a grouplike element $epsilonin k[mathcal{G}]$ of order $le 2$, whose action by conjugation on $mathcal{G}$ coincides with the parity automorphism of $mathcal{G}$, such that $mathcal{C}$ is symmetric tensor equivalent to $Rep(mathcal{G},epsilon)$. In particular, when $mathcal{C}$ is unipotent, the functor lands in $Vect$, so $mathcal{C}$ is symmetric tensor equivalent to $Rep(U)$ for a unique finite unipotent group scheme $U$ over $k$. We apply our result and the results of cite{g} to classify certain finite dimensional triangular Hopf algebras with the Chevalley property over $k$ (e.g., local), in group scheme-theoretical terms. Finally, we compute the Sweedler cohomology of restricted enveloping algebras over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic $p>0$, classify associators for their duals, and study finite dimensional (not necessarily triangular) local quasi-Hopf algebras and finite (not necessarily symmetric) unipotent tensor categories over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic $p>0$. The appendix by K. Coulembier and P. Etingof gives another proof of the above classification results using the recent paper cite{Co}, and, more generally, shows that the maximal Tannakian and super-Tannakian subcategory of a symmetric tensor category over a field of characteristic $ e 2$ is always a Serre subcategory.
We analyze the action of the Brauer-Picard group of a pointed fusion category on the set of Lagrangian subcategories of its center. Using this action we compute the Brauer-Picard groups of pointed fusion categories associated to several classical finite groups. As an application, we construct new examples of weakly group-theoretical fusion categories.
We give a necessary and sufficient condition in terms of group cohomology for two indecomposable module categories over a group-theoretical fusion category ${mathcal C}$ to be equivalent. This concludes the classification of such module categories.
We study exact sequences of finite tensor categories of the form $Rep G to C to D$, where $G$ is a finite group. We show that, under suitable assumptions, there exists a group $Gamma$ and mutual actions by permutations $rhd: Gamma times G to G$ and $lhd: Gamma times G to Gamma$ that make $(G, Gamma)$ into matched pair of groups endowed with a natural crossed action on $D$ such that $C$ is equivalent to a certain associated crossed extension $D^{(G, Gamma)}$ of $D$. Dually, we show that an exact sequence of finite tensor categories $vect_G to C to D$ induces an $Aut(G)$-grading on $C$ whose neutral homogeneous component is a $(Z(G), Gamma)$-crossed extension of a tensor subcategory of $D$. As an application we prove that such extensions $C$ of $D$ are weakly group-theoretical fusion categories if and only if $D$ is a weakly group-theoretical fusion category. In particular, we conclude that every semisolvable semisimple Hopf algebra is weakly group-theoretical.