Free subgroups within the images of quantum representations

DOI10.1515/FORM.2011.162zbMATH Open1303.57002arXiv1108.4904OpenAlexW2963265030MaRDI QIDQ3189495FDOQ3189495

Authors: Toshitake Kohno, Louis Funar 

Publication date: 11 September 2014

Published in: Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that, except for a few explicit roots of unity, the quantum image of any Johnson subgroup of the mapping class group contains an explicit free non-abelian subgroup.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4904

zbMATH Keywords

Burau representationmapping class grouptriangle groupbraid groupDehn twistJohnson filtrationquantum representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38)

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• On Burau's representations at roots of unity
• FREE-FIELD REPRESENTATION OF GROUP ELEMENT FOR SIMPLE QUANTUM GROUPS
• Partial periodic quotients of groups acting on a hyperbolic space
• Images of quantum representations of mapping class groups and Dupont-Guichardet-Wigner quasi-homomorphisms
• The normal closure of a power of a half-twist has infinite index in the mapping class group of a punctured sphere
• Quotients of surface groups and homology of finite covers via quantum representations

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