Finiteness for mapping class group representations from twisted Dijkgraaf-Witten theory

DOI10.1142/S0218216518500438zbMATH Open1391.81179arXiv1610.06069WikidataQ129892571 ScholiaQ129892571MaRDI QIDQ4565313FDOQ4565313

Paul Gustafson

Publication date: 12 June 2018

Published in: Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that any twisted Dijkgraaf-Witten representation of a mapping class group of an orientable, compact surface with boundary has finite image. This generalizes work of Etingof, Rowell and Witherspoon showing that the braid group images are finite. In particular, our result answers their question regarding finiteness of images of arbitrary mapping class group representations in the affirmative. Our approach is to translate the problem into manipulation of colored graphs embedded in the given surface. To do this translation, we use the fact that any twisted Dijkgraaf-Witten representation associated to a finite group $G$ and 3-cocycle $omega$ is isomorphic to a Turaev-Viro-Barrett-Westbury (TVBW) representation associated to the spherical fusion category $ext{Vec}_G^{o}mega$ of twisted $G$-graded vector spaces. As shown by Kirillov, the representation space for this TVBW representation is canonically isomorphic to a vector space spanned by $ext{Vec}_G^{o}mega$-colored graphs embedded in the surface. By analyzing the action of the Birman generators on a finite spanning set of colored graphs, we find that the mapping class group acts by permutations on a slightly larger finite spanning set. This implies that the representation has finite image.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06069

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zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupTQFTproperty F conjecturetwisted Dijkgraaf-Witten

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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