Extended reflection equation algebras, the braid group on a handlebody, and associated link polynomials

DOI10.1063/1.530751zbMATH Open0866.57009arXivhep-th/9402051OpenAlexW2032883864MaRDI QIDQ4327240FDOQ4327240

Christian Schwiebert

Publication date: 5 April 1995

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

Abstract: The correspondence of the braid group on a handlebody of arbitrary genus to the algebra of Yang-Baxter and extended reflection equation operators is shown. Representations of the infinite dimensional extended reflection equation algebra in terms of direct products of quantum algebra generators are derived, they lead to a representation of this braid group in terms of $R$-matrices. Restriction to the reflection equation operators only gives the coloured braid group. The reflection equation operators, describing the effect of handles attached to a 3-ball, satisfy characteristic equations which give rise to additional skein relations and thereby invariants of links on handlebodies. The origin of the skein relations is explained and they are derived from an adequately adapted handlebody version of the Jones polynomial. Relevance of these results to the construction of link polynomials on closed 3-manifolds via Heegard splitting and surgery is indicated.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9402051

zbMATH Keywords

operatorsinvariantsrepresentationsskein relationslinksbraid group\(R\)-matricesquantum algebra generators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50)

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