Finite group actions on dg categories and Hochschild homology

Abstract Let G be a finite group whose order is not divisible by the characteristic of the ground field $\mathbb {F}$ . We prove a decomposition of the Hochschild homology groups of the equivariant dg category $\mathscr {C}^G$ associated with the action of G on a small dg category $\mathscr {C}$ which admits finite direct sums. When, in addition, the ground field $\mathbb {F}$ is algebraically closed this decomposition is related to a categorical action of $\text {Rep}(G)$ on $\mathscr {C}^G$ and the resulting action of the representation ring $R_{\mathbb {F}}(G)$ on $HH_\bullet (\mathscr {C}^G)$ .