The Burau representations of loop braid groups

DOI10.5802/CRMATH.338MaRDI QIDQ6378407arXivFDO

Authors Martin Palmer, Arthur Soulié

Publication date 23 September 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.5802/CRMATH.338

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

arXiv classification

math.ATmath.GT

Abstract: We give a simple topological construction of the Burau representations of the loop braid groups. There are four versions: defined either on the non-extended or extended loop braid groups, and in each case there is an unreduced and a reduced version. Three are not surprising, and one could easily guess the correct matrices to assign to generators. The fourth is more subtle, and does not seem combinatorially obvious, although it is topologically very natural.

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