Representation of Artin-Tits groups by transvections.

DOI10.4171/GGD/7MaRDI QIDQ2369823zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Eddy Godelle

Publication date 21 June 2007

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/GGD/7

zbMATH Keywords

affine braid groupsArtin-Tits groupsautomorphisms of free groupsepisturmian morphismsrepresentations of braid groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Combinatorics on words (68R15)

Review text

Summary: In a recent article [Ann. Mat. Pura Appl. (4) 186, No. 2, 317-339 (2007; Zbl 1150.05042)], \textit{C. Kassel} and \textit{C. Reutenauer} studied the connection between the 4 strand braid group and Sturmian morphisms in word combinatorics. The aim of the current work is to extend this approach into a general connection between braid groups (of any index) and epi\-sturmian morphisms, a natural generalization of Sturmian morphisms. Our key tool consists in associating with every graph a certain finite family of automorphisms of a free group. In the case of a complete graph, we recover some well-known family of episturmian morphisms. Now, considering the path of length \(n\), we deduce a seemingly new representation of the braid group \(B_{n+1}\) in \(\Aut(F_n)\). By considering some other graphs, we similarly obtain representations of various Artin-Tits groups, in particular some affine braid groups. Our representation is faithful for \(B_3\) and \(B_4\); for other cases, the question of faithfulness remains open.

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