Fixed-point-free fusion automorphisms

Abstract

This is a study of fusion ring automorphisms leaving only the trivial element fixed. We prove that a variety of classical results on fixed-point-free automorphisms of finite groups are true in the generality of fusion rings. As a result, we show there are $8$ Grothendieck equivalence classes of fusion categories of rank less than $9$ with a fixed-point-free fusion automorphism of prime order, generalizing existing results about modular fusion categories of odd dimension.