Reducibility of the Cohen-Wales representation of the Artin group of type D_n.

DOI10.1142/S021821651250071XMaRDI QIDQ2909494zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Claire Levaillant

Publication date 30 August 2012

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5673

zbMATH Keywords

Artin groupsreducibility criteriagenerically irreducible representationsfaithful linear representationsCohen-Wales representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Hecke algebras and their representations (20C08)

Abstract: Using knot theory, we construct a linear representation of the CGW algebra of type $D_n$. This representation has degree $n^2-n$, the number of positive roots of a root system of type $D_n$. We show that the representation is generically irreducible, but that when the parameters of the algebra are related in a certain way, it becomes reducible. As a representation of the Artin group of type $D_n$, this representation is equivalent to the faithful linear representation of Cohen-Wales. We give a reducibility criterion for this representation as well as a conjecture on the semisimplicity of the CGW algebra of type $D_n$. Our proof is computer-assisted using Mathematica.

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