Partially multiplicative quandles and simplicial Hurwitz spaces

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Authors: Andrea Bianchi 

Publication date: 17 June 2021

Abstract: We introduce the notion of partially multiplicative quandle (PMQ), generalising both classical notions of partial monoid and of quandle. We set up the basic theory of PMQs, in analogy with classical group theory. For a complete PMQ $hatmathcalQ$, and for a braided closed monoidal category $mathbfA$, we introduce a braided monoidal category of $hatmathcalQ$-crossed object in $mathbfA$, in analogy with the classical notion of $G$-crossed objects, depending on a discrete group $G$. We use the previous to give a definition of Hurwitz spaces $mathrm{Hur}^{Delta}(mathcalQ)$ of configurations of points in the plane with monodromies in a PMQ: the definition has a simplicial flavour, and gives rise to topological spaces with a natural cell stratification; it recovers the classical definition of Hurwitz spaces in the case of a discrete group $G$ considered as a PMQ with trivial multiplication. We give a criterion to detect whether a PMQ $mathcalQ$ is Poincare, i.e. whether all connected components of $mathrm{Hur}^{Delta}(mathcalQ)$ are topological manifolds. Finally, we analyse thoroughly the PMQ $mathfrak{S}_d^{mathrmgeo}$, for $dge2$, and we compute its enveloping group and its completion as PMQ.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure theory of algebraic structures (08A05) Automorphisms and endomorphisms of algebraic structures (08A35) General theory for finite permutation groups (20B05) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems (20M05) Braided monoidal categories and ribbon categories (18M15)

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