Matrix representation for some generalized braid-like groups

DOI10.1142/S0218216525500658MaRDI QIDQ6908024zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Abdoulrahim Ibrahim

Publication date 1 November 2025

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218216525500658

zbMATH Keywords

Burau and Gassner representationsIwahori-Hecke algebrarelative augmentation idealTemperley-Lieb algebravirtual and welded braid groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C07) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) Knot theory (57K10)

Review text

The paper under review studies matrix representations of virtual and welded braid groups, generalizing the classical Burau and Gassner representations. For the welded pure braid group \(WP_n\), the author develops a systematic construction based on the action of \(WP_n\) on a free group and the relative augmentation ideal. This yields a family of faithful representations \(\Psi_n\) and their iterated versions, recovering in particular the extended Gassner representation and producing tensor products of such representations.\N\NFor the virtual braid group \(VB_n\), the author introduces a variant of the Burau representation depending on three parameters and shows that it factors through both the welded braid group and the opposite welded braid group. Moreover, the paper defines a two-parameter virtual Iwahori-Hecke algebra, viewed as an extension of the classical Iwahori-Hecke algebra by adding virtual crossings and observes a connection with the virtual Temperley-Lieb algebra previously studied by \textit{L. Paris} and \textit{L. Rabenda} [J. Knot Theory Ramifications 30, No. 6, Article ID 2150041, 36 p. (2021; Zbl 1541.57010)].

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