Braid groups and Euclidean simplices

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-31580-5_12MaRDI QIDQ4608484zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Elizabeth Leyton Chisholm, Jon McCammond

Publication date 20 March 2018

Published in Springer INdAM Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1028

zbMATH Keywords

non-crossing partitionsLawrence-Krammer-Bigelow representationEuclidean simplicesBraid groupsdual Garside structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: When Daan Krammer and Stephen Bigelow independently proved that braid groups are linear, they used the Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow representation for generic values of its variables q and t. The t variable is closely connected to the traditional Garside structure of the braid group and plays a major role in Krammer's algebraic proof. The q variable, associated with the dual Garside structure of the braid group, has received less attention. In this article we give a geometric interpretation of the q portion of the LKB representation in terms of an action of the braid group on the space of non-degenerate euclidean simplices. In our interpretation, braid group elements act by systematically reshaping (and relabeling) euclidean simplices. The reshapings associated to the simple elements in the dual Garside structure of the braid group are of an especially elementary type that we call relabeling and rescaling.

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