Tambara–Yamagami categories over the reals: The nonsplit case

Abstract Tambara and Yamagami investigated a simple set of fusion rules with only one noninvertible object, and proved under which circumstances those rules could be given a coherent associator. They also classified all of the resulting fusion categories up to monoidal equivalence. We consider a generalization of such fusion rules to the setting where simple objects are no longer required to be split simple. Over the real numbers, this means that simple objects are either real, complex, or quaternionic. In this context, we prove a similar categorification result to the one of Tambara and Yamagami.