%0 Journal Article %T Hopf algebra extensions of group algebras and Tambara-Yamagami categories %A Sonia Natale %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %X We determine the structure of Hopf algebra extensions of a group algebra by the cyclic group of order 2. We study the corepresentation theory of such Hopf algebras, which provide a generalization, at the Hopf algebra level, of the so called Tambara-Yamagami fusion categories. As a byproduct, we show that every semisimple Hopf algebra of dimension $<36$ is necessarily group-theoretical; thus 36 is the smallest possible dimension where a non group-theoretical example occurs. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3172v2