The braid group and linear rigidity

DOI10.1023/A:1010341332396MaRDI QIDQ5933874zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Helmut Völklein

Publication date 24 April 2002

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1010341332396

zbMATH Keywords

Artin braid groupsBC-operationGalois theoryHurwitz actionlocal systemsmiddle convolutionrigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse Galois theory (12F12) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

Review text

\textit{N. M. Katz} [see Rigid local systems, Ann. Math. Stud. 139 (1996; Zbl 0864.14013)] investigated a certain class of local systems which he called ``physically rigid. Katz showed that all irreducible physically rigid local systems can be obtained from one-dimensional systems via repeated application of certain operations, called ``scaling and ``middle convolution. The article under review proposes to replace the ``middle convolution of Katz by a new operation which the author calls ``BC-operation. The author emphasizes that this ``BC-operation is more amenable for computer calculations and commutes with the Hurwitz action of the braid group. The latter fact is useful in applications to Galois theory, as explained in the last section of the article.

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• On the linearity of Artin braid groups.
• Indecomposable parabolic bundles and the existence of matrices in prescribed conjugacy class closures with product equal to the identity
• Multiplicative preprojective algebras, middle convolution and the Deligne-Simpson problem
• Variation of local systems and parabolic cohomology
• A transformation principle for covers of P^1
• On additive Deligne-Simpson problems
• Galois rigidity of pro-𝑙 pure braid groups of algebraic curves
• Block triangular bilinear forms and braid group action
• Braid groups are linear
• The braid group B₄ is linear
• Middle convolution and Harnad duality
• Appendix 1. Moduli spaces of meromorphic connections, quiver varieties, and integrable deformations
• The Deligne-Simpson problem -- survey
• Stability conditions and the braid group

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