Representations of the necklace braid group: topological and combinatorial approaches

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03445-0zbMATH Open1452.20032arXiv1810.05152OpenAlexW3098109387WikidataQ127925801 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)

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.

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

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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)

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