On the Mext groups of sVec_R and sVec_H

Abstract

We compute the groups of minimal nondegenerate extensions of the real symmetric fusion categories ${\mathrm{sVec}}_{\mathbb{R}}$ and ${\mathrm{sVec}}_{\mathbb{H}}$. We find that they are both isomorphic to the Klein-four group $(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}{)}^2$. Along the way, we classify all nondegenerately braided fusion categories over $\mathbb{R}$ that have Frobenius-Perron dimension 4, and we determine exactly which of these categories is a Drinfeld center. We end the paper by discussing a homotopy-theoretic conjecture that organizes all these structures.

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