Generalised Magnus modules over the braid group

DOI10.1007/BF01445266MaRDI QIDQ2563416zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mirko Lüdde

Publication date 10 April 1997

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/q-alg/9510015, https://eudml.org/doc/165469

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupsbraid modulesfree resolutionsHecke algebrasholonomy representationshomology modulessemidirect products of free groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C07) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Monodromy; relations with differential equations and (D)-modules (complex-analytic aspects) (32S40)

Abstract: W.~Magnus' representations of submonoids $EleqmboxEnd(F)$ of the endomorphisms of a free group $F$ of finite rank are generalised by identifying them with the first homology group of $F$ with particular coefficient modules. By considering a suitable free resolution of the integers over the semidirect product of free groups, a class of representations of the braid group can be obtained on higher homology groups. The resolution shows that the holonomy representations of the braid group and of the Hecke algebra constructed topologically by R.~J.~Lawrence belong to this class.

Review text

The present article considers the construction of homology modules over the braid group. A well-known procedure of W. Magnus, restated by J. Birman, is shown to be equivalent to considering the homology \(H_1(F,M)\) of the free group \(F\) with certain coefficient modules \(M\) as braid module. The main result of the work is the construction of a free resolution \(C\) of the integers over an iterated semidirect product of free groups. The complexes \(P\otimes C\) and their homology for certain coefficient modules \(P\) then carry the structure of a braid module. These can be regarded as generalisations of the Burau- and Magnus-modules. The resolution is further used to show that the holonomy representations of the braid group and of the Hecke algebra constructed by topological means by R. J. Lawrence belong to this class of modules.

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