Representations of the modular group arising from Drinfeld doubles of finite abelian groups

Abstract

We show that the image of the representation of the modular group [Formula: see text] arising from the representation category [Formula: see text] of the Drinfeld double [Formula: see text] of a finite abelian group [Formula: see text] of exponent [Formula: see text] is isomorphic to the special linear group [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] denotes the ring of integers modulo [Formula: see text]. As a consequence, we establish that the kernel of the representation in question is the principal congruence subgroup of level [Formula: see text].