The Gassner representation for string links

DOI10.1142/S0219199701000299MaRDI QIDQ2764508zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Charles Livingston, Zhenghan Wang, Paul Kirk

Publication date 25 July 2002

Published in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9806035

zbMATH Keywords

Burau representationFox calculusgroup cohomologyrandom walks

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Abstract: The Gassner representation of the pure braid group to $G{L}_n(Z[Z^n])$ can be extended to give a representation of the concordance group of $n$-strand string links to $G{L}_n(F)$, where $F$ is the field of quotients of $zz[z{z}^n]$, $F=Q(t_1,\mathrm{...},t_n)$; this was first observed by Le Dimet. Here we present simple new perspectives on its definition, its computation, and its applications to obtain both general results and interesting family of examples.

Review text

The authors investigate the extension of the Gassner representation to the group of concordance classes of string links. They present new perspectives on its definition by giving a simple homological one and a completely different probalistic one in terms of random walks on string links. This allows them to obtain general results. For example, they prove that the extended Gassner representation is unitary, that the pure braid group on \(n\)-components (\(n\geq 3\)) is not normal in the pure string link concordance group and that the entries in the generalized Gassner matrix are finite type invariants.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEFurthermore, they use these definitions to establish a formula relating the Alexander polynomial of the closure of a string link and its generalized Gassner invariant, to give elementary arguments of the theorems of \textit{J.-Y. Le Dimet} [Comment. Math. Helv. 67, No. 2, 306-315 (1992; Zbl 0759.57010)] and to obtain a useful and flexible generalization of a recent theorem of \textit{J. Levine} [ibid. 74, No. 1, 27-52 (1999; Zbl 0918.57001)].

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