Representations of the necklace braid group: topological and combinatorial approaches

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03445-0zbMATH Open1452.20032OpenAlexW3098109387WikidataQ127925801 ScholiaQ127925801MaRDI QIDQ2174648FDOQ2174648

Authors Alex Bullivant, Andrew Kimball, Paul Martin, Eric C. Rowell 

Publication date 21 April 2020

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05152

zbMATH Keywords

braid group representationnecklace braid group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Hecke algebras and their representations (20C08)

Abstract: The necklace braid group $mathcal{NB}_n$ is the motion group of the $n+1$ component necklace link $mathcal{L}_n$ in Euclidean $mathbb{R}^3$. Here $mathcal{L}_n$ consists of $n$ pairwise unlinked Euclidean circles each linked to an auxiliary circle. Partially motivated by physical considerations, we study representations of the necklace braid group $mathcal{NB}_n$, especially those obtained as extensions of representations of the braid group $mathcal{B}_n$ and the loop braid group $mathcal{LB}_n$. We show that any irreducible $mathcal{B}_n$ representation extends to $mathcal{NB}_n$ in a standard way. We also find some non-standard extensions of several well-known $mathcal{B}_n$-representations such as the Burau and LKB representations. Moreover, we prove that any local representation of $mathcal{B}_n$ (i.e. coming from a braided vector space) can be extended to $mathcal{NB}_n$, in contrast to the situation with $mathcal{LB}_n$. We also discuss some directions for future study from categorical and physical perspectives.

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