A generalization of the Turaev cobracket and the minimal self-intersection number of a curve on a surface

zbMATH Open1316.57016arXiv1004.0532MaRDI QIDQ374062FDOQ374062

Authors: Patricia Cahn 

Publication date: 25 October 2013

Published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Goldman and Turaev constructed a Lie bialgebra structure on the free $mathbbZ$-module generated by free homotopy classes of loops on a surface. Turaev conjectured that his cobracket $Delta(alpha)$ is zero if and only if $alpha$ is a power of a simple class. Chas constructed examples that show Turaev's conjecture is, unfortunately, false. We define an operation $mu$ in the spirit of the Andersen-Mattes-Reshetikhin algebra of chord diagrams. The Turaev cobracket factors through $mu$, so we can view $mu$ as a generalization of $Delta$. We show that Turaev's conjecture holds when $Delta$ is replaced with $mu$. We also show that $mu(alpha)$ gives an explicit formula for the minimum number of self-intersection points of a loop in $alpha$. The operation $mu$ also satisfies identities similar to the co-Jacobi and coskew symmetry identities, so while $mu$ is not a cobracket, $mu$ behaves like a Lie cobracket for the Andersen-Mattes-Reshetikhin Poisson algebra.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0532

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zbMATH Keywords

Lie bialgebrasfree homotopy classescurves on surfacesself-intersections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lie bialgebras; Lie coalgebras (17B62) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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