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Classification of commutative Frobenius algebras

Are there attempts to classify commutative finite dimensional Frobenius algebras? They appear often in mathematics, such as in algebraic geometry and the famous category equivalence between commutative Frobenius algebras and 2-dimension topolocial quantum field theories. However, I have not yet seen attempts to classify this class of algebras.

Here are two questions related to such a classification (we can assume that commutative Frobenius algebra are connected):

Question 1: Is a commutative Frobenius algebra "field-independent"? This means that in its presentation $KQ/I$ by quiver and relations, there exists such $I$ which only contains the field element 1 or -1 so that a given commutative Frobenius algebra is defined over all fields.

In case question 1 has a positive answer, this would mean that a classification is independet of the field (maybe excluding characteristic 2).

Question 2: For a given integer $d$, are the only finitely many $d$-dimensional commutative Frobenius algebras of vector space dimension $d$?

A positive answer to question 2 would be surprising, but I think it should be true for $d \leq 5$ at least.

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