Congruence subgroups from representations of the three-strand braid group

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2017.05.026zbMATH Open1403.20053arXiv1611.05103OpenAlexW2555579343MaRDI QIDQ2012032FDOQ2012032

Authors: Joseph Ricci, Zhenghan Wang 

Publication date: 27 July 2017

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Ng and Schauenburg proved that the kernel of a $(2+1)$-dimensional topological quantum field theory representation of $mathrmSL(2,mathbbZ)$ is a congruence subgroup. Motivated by their result, we explore when the kernel of an irreducible representation of the braid group $B_3$ with finite image enjoys a congruence subgroup property. In particular, we show that in dimensions two and three, when the projective order of the image of the braid generator $sigm{a}_1$ is between 2 and 5 the kernel projects onto a congruence subgroup of $mathrmPSL(2,mathbbZ)$ and compute its level. However, we prove for three dimensional representations, the projective order is not enough to decide the congruence property. For each integer of the form $2ellgeq6$ with $ell$ odd, we construct a pair of non-congruence subgroups associated with three-dimensional representations having finite image and $sigm{a}_1$ mapping to a matrix with projective order $2ell$. Our technique uses classification results of low dimensional braid group representations, and the Fricke-Wohlfarht theorem in number theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05103

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zbMATH Keywords

congruence subgrouprepresentationbraid group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07)

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