Irreducibility of quantum representations of mapping class groups with boundary

DOI10.4171/QT/116MaRDI QIDQ1633849zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Thomas Koberda, Ramanujan Santharoubane

Publication date 21 December 2018

Published in Quantum Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08901

zbMATH Keywords

Birman exact sequencecurve operatorirreducible representationpoint-pushingskein algebraTQFT representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56)

Abstract: We prove that the Witten--Reshetikhin--Turaev $mathrmSU(2)$ quantum representations of mapping class groups are always irreducible in the case of surfaces equipped with colored banded points, provided that at least one banded point is colored by one. We thus generalize a well--known result due to J. Roberts.

Review text

Let \(S\) be a closed orientable surface of genus \(g\), \(n\) be an integer such that \(4 \leq 2g+n\), \(\underline{k} = (k_1, \ldots, k_n)\) be an \(n\)-tuple of positive integers, and \((S, \underline{k})\) be the surface \(S\) with \(n\) banded points colored by \(\underline{k}\). Let \(\mathrm{Mod}(S,n)\) be the group of diffeomorphisms of \(S\) fixing \(n\) banded points up to isotopy. For an even integer \(p \geq \max \{ 6, \max \{ k_1, \ldots, k_n \} +4 \}\), we write \(\rho_p : \mathrm{Mod} (S,n) \to \mathrm{PAut}(V_p(S, \underline{k}))\) for the quantum representation of \(\mathrm{Mod}(S,n)\) arising from Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev \(\mathrm{SU}(2)\)-TQFT. In the paper under review, it is proved that, if \(n \geq 1\) and at least one of \(\{k_1, \ldots, k_n \}\) is \(1\), then \(\rho_p\) is irreducible for all \(p\). This result follows from the stronger fact shown in this paper: The restriction of \(\rho_p\) to the point-pushing subgroup of the point colored by \(1\) is irreducible.

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