Blocked-braid groups

DOI10.1007/S10485-013-9363-2MaRDI QIDQ2254601zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Maglia, N. Sabadini, R. F. C. Walters

Publication date 5 February 2015

Published in Applied Categorical Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5383

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupbraided monoidal categorytangled circuit diagram

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

Abstract: We introduce and study a family of groups $mathbf{BB}_n$, called the blocked-braid groups, which are quotients of Artin's braid groups $mathbf{B}_n$, and have the corresponding symmetric groups $Sigm{a}_n$ as quotients. They are defined by adding a certain class of geometrical modifications to braids. They arise in the study of commutative Frobenius algebras and tangle algebras in braided strict monoidal categories. A fundamental equation true in $mathbf{BB}_n$ is Dirac's Belt Trick; that torsion through $4pi$ is equal to the identity. We show that $mathbf{BB}_n$ is finite for $n=1,2$ and 3 but infinite for $n>3$.

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