Random operator approach for word enumeration in braid groups

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/31/26/003MaRDI QIDQ3836035zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alain Comtet, S. Nechaev

Publication date 6 December 1999

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9707120

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

Abstract: We investigate analytically the problem of enumeration of nonequivalent primitive words in the braid group B_n for n >> 1 by analysing the random word statistics and the target space on the basis of the locally free group approximation. We develop a "symbolic dynamics" method for exact word enumeration in locally free groups and bring arguments in support of the conjecture that the number of very long primitive words in the braid group is not sensitive to the precise local commutation relations. We consider the connection of these problems with the conventional random operator theory, localization phenomena and statistics of systems with quenched disorder. Also we discuss the relation of the particular problems of random operator theory to the theory of modular functions

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