QUANTUM TEICHMÜLLER THEORY AND REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PURE BRAID GROUP

DOI10.1142/S0219199708003095zbMATH Open1229.57016arXiv0801.4922OpenAlexW2026776062MaRDI QIDQ3607439FDOQ3607439

Authors: Francis Bonahon 

Publication date: 2 March 2009

Published in: Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We adapt some of the methods of quantum Teichm"uller theory to construct a family of representations of the pure braid group of the sphere.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4922

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zbMATH Keywords

representationmapping class group of a surfaceChekhov-Fock algebraTeichmüller spacebraid groups of a surfaceRivin triangulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Quantum groups (quantized function algebras) and their representations (20G42)

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• The pentagon equation and mapping-class groups of punctured surfaces
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• Representations of the quantum Teichmüller space and invariants of surface diffeomorphisms
• Reading the dual Garside length of braids from homological and quantum representations.

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