Heisenberg homology on surface configurations

Authors Christian Blanchet, Martin Palmer, Awais Shaukat

Publication date 1 September 2021

Central extensions and Schur multipliers (19C09) Integral representations of infinite groups (20C12) Homology with local coefficients, equivariant cohomology (55N25) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

Abstract: Motivated by the Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow representations of the classical braid groups, we study the homology of unordered configurations in an orientable genus-

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surface with one boundary component, over non-commutative local systems defined from representations of the discrete Heisenberg group. For a general representation of the Heisenberg group we obtain a twisted representation of the mapping class group. For the linearisation of the affine translation action of the Heisenberg group we obtain a genuine, untwisted representation of the mapping class group. In the case of the Schr"odinger representation or its finite-dimensional analogues, by composing with a Stone-von Neumann isomorphism we obtain a representation to the projective unitary group, which lifts to a unitary representation of the stably universal central extension of the mapping class group.

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