Action of braid groups on determinantal ideals, compact spaces and a stratification of Teichmüller space (Q5944897)

The braid group \(B_n\) is the group with generators \(\sigma_1,\dots,\sigma_{n-1}\) and relations \[ \sigma_i\sigma_{i+1}\sigma_i=\sigma_{i+1}\sigma_i\sigma_{i+1},\text{ for }i=1,\dots,n-2,\;\sigma_i\sigma_j=\sigma_j\sigma_i,\text{ for }|i-j|>1. \] The author shows that for \(n\geq 3\) there is an action of the braid group \(B_n\) on the determinantal ideals of a certain \(n\times n\) symmetric matrix with algebraically independent entries off the diagonal and \(2s\) on the diagonal, and how this action gives rise to an action of \(B_n\) on certain compact subspaces of some Euclidean spaces of dimension \(C_2^n\). Moreover, he shows how a finite number of disjoint copies of the Teichmüller space for the \(n\)-punctured disc is naturally a subset of \(\mathbb{R}^{C_2^n}\), and how this cover of Teichmüller space is a union of non-trivial \(B_n\)-invariant subspaces, where the action of \(B_n\) on the cover of Teichmüller space is via polynomial automorphisms.