Towers of recollement and bases for diagram algebras: planar diagrams and a little beyond. (Q2460822)

This is a long paper with more than 60 pages. The authors adapt the so-called recollement approach to treat sequences that are not necessarily towers by inclusion (such as symplectic blob algebras). They find a set of functors interrelating module categories of ordinary blob algebras at different values of the algebra parameters. They show that these functors generalise to determine the structure of symplectic blob algebras and hence of certain two-boundary Temperley-Lieb algebras arising in Statistical Mechanics.