Classification conjecture for minimal modular extensions of 2Rep(G)

Let GG be a finite group. A minimal modular extension of 2Rep(G)\operatorname{2Rep}(G) is a unitary modular tensor 2-category equipped with a braided monoidal fully faithful embedding 2Rep(G)C\operatorname{2Rep}(G)\hookrightarrow\mathcal{C} such that the relative sylleptic center of 2Rep(G)\operatorname{2Rep}(G) in C\mathcal{C} is braided monoidally equivalent to 2Rep(G)\operatorname{2Rep}(G). Classification conjecture. The equivalence classes of minimal modular extensions of 2Rep(G)\operatorname{2Rep}(G) are classified by

H4(G,k×).H^4(G,\mathbf{k}^{\times}).

This is motivated by the classification of symmetry-protected topological orders in lower and higher dimensions. The paper establishes that Z(2VecGω)\mathcal{Z}(\operatorname{2Vec}_G^\omega) gives a minimal modular extension for each ωZ4(G,k×)\omega\in Z^4(G,\mathbf{k}^{\times}), but the claimed classification of all such extensions remains open.

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Liang Kong, Yin Tian and Shan Zhou, “The center of monoidal 2-categories in 3+1D Dijkgraaf-Witten Theory”, arXiv:1905.04644 (2020).

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