Representations of the necklace braid group: topological and combinatorial approaches

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03445-0MaRDI QIDQ2174648zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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, http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/145674/1/NecklaceBraid_1.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

braid group representationnecklace braid group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

The necklace braid group (of rank \(n\)) is the motion group of the \(n\)-necklace which consists of \(n\) pairwise unlinked circles each linked to an auxiliary circle. Alternatively, the necklace group can be seen as an extension of the braid group by one extra generator (in the sense that it contains the braid group, and the quotient is generated by one element), namely, that corresponds to rotating the auxilary circle in the necklace. By the latter description, given a braid group representation, one can try to extend it to a representation of the necklace braid group by finding an appropriate action of the extra generator. Constructed in the paper are so-called standard extensions, which exist for all irreducible braid group representations. The paper then discusses standard and non-standard extensions of various braid group representaions: the standard representation; the Burau representation; the Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow representation; and some local representations, e.g., the representations coming from a braided fusion category, as well as a physics aspect of certain standard extensions. The paper also describes a relation (a group morphism) between the necklace braid group and the loop braid group and compares some of the above results with the case for the loop braid group.

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