Representations of motion groups of links via dimension reduction of TQFTs

DOI10.1007/S00220-021-03991-6MaRDI QIDQ2662877zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yang Qiu, Zhenghan Wang

Publication date 15 April 2021

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07642

zbMATH Keywords

wisted generalization of Dijkgraaf-Witten theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Higher-dimensional knots and links (57K45) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Dimensional compactification in quantum field theory (81T33) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

Abstract: Motion groups of links in the three sphere $mathbb{S}^3$ are generalizations of the braid groups, which are motion groups of points in the disk $mathbb{D}^2$. Representations of motion groups can be used to model statistics of extended objects such as closed strings in physics. Each $1$-extended $(3+1)$-topological quantum field theory (TQFT) will provide representations of motion groups, but it is difficult to compute such representations explicitly in general. In this paper, we compute representations of the motion groups of links in $mathbb{S}^3$ with generalized axes from Dijkgraaf-Witten (DW) TQFTs inspired by dimension reduction. A succinct way to state our result is as a step toward a twisted generalization (Conjecture ef{mainconjecture}) of a conjecture for DW theories of dimension reduction from $(3+1)$ to $(2+1)$: $extrm{DW}_G^{3+1}congoplu{s}_{[g]in[G]}extrm{DW}_{C(g)}^{2+1}$, where the sum runs over all conjugacy classes $[g]in[G]$ of $G$ and $C(g)$ the centralizer of any element $gin[g]$. We prove a version of Conjecture ef{mainconjecture} for the mapping class groups of closed manifolds and the case of torus links labeled by pure fluxes.

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