On groups of \(I\)-type and involutive Yang-Baxter groups (Q290426)

Semigroups of \(I\)-type were introduced by \textit{T. Gateva-Ivanova} and \textit{M. Van den Bergh} [J. Algebra 206, No. 1, 97--112, Art. No. JA977399 (1998; Zbl 0944.20049)] as a class of monoids with a ``good basis'', similar to \textit{J. Tate} and \textit{M. Van den Bergh}'s algebras of \(I\)-type [Invent. Math. 124, No. 1--3, 619--647 (1996; Zbl 0876.17010)]. Monoids of \(I\)-type admit a group of fractions, and these ``groups of \(I\)-type'' are equivalent to groups \(G\) with a bijective 1-cocycle \(G\rightarrow\mathbb Z^{(X)}\) into a free abelian group generated by a set \(X\). On \(X\), this structure induces a unitary solution of the quantum Yang-Baxter equation. Due to their affine structure, groups of \(I\)-type are solvable. As a special type of Garside group, they are remote relatives of Artin-Tits groups, having a canonical finite factor group like a Coxter group. This factor group, the reduced structure group of the corresponding solution of the QYBE, admits a bijective 1-cocycle onto a finite abelian group and is called an involutive Yang-Baxter (IYB) group. In the paper under review, both types of solvable groups are analysed by homological methods. Some closure properties of IYB groups are proved. For example, every finite solvable group with abelian Sylow subgroups is shown to be IYB. The problem to lift a given \(I\)-datum of an IYB-group acting on \(\mathbb Z^n\) is solved in cohomological terms.