Braid groups and Euclidean simplices

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-31580-5_12zbMATH Open1386.20021arXiv1411.1028OpenAlexW347196182MaRDI QIDQ4608484FDOQ4608484

Authors: Elizabeth Leyton Chisholm, Jon McCammond 

Publication date: 20 March 2018

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

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.

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

Recommendations

• Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow representations and dual Garside length of braids.
• Another proof of the faithfulness of the Lawrence-Krammer representation of the braid group \(B_3\).
• Braid groups are linear
• Braid groups are linear
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1747330

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)

Cites Work

• A new approach to the word and conjugacy problems in the braid groups
• Noncrossing Partitions in Surprising Locations
• Generalized noncrossing partitions and combinatorics of Coxeter groups
• Braid groups are linear
• Braid groups are linear
• On the structure of the lattice of noncrossing partitions
• GEOMETRIC PRESENTATIONS FOR THE PURE BRAID GROUP
• On the linearity of Artin braid groups.
• Linearity of Artin groups of finite type.
• Artin monoids inject in their groups
• The braid group \(B_4\) is linear
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• The Burau representation is not faithful for \(n=5\)
• Factoring Euclidean isometries
• Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow representations and dual Garside length of braids.

Cited In (2)

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Braids, posets and orthoschemes

This page was built for publication: Braid groups and Euclidean simplices

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4608484)