Quantum groups constructed from the non-standard braid group representations in the Faddeev-Reshetikhin-Takhtajan approach

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (13) ◽  
pp. L725-L732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mo -L Ge ◽  
A C T Wu
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Groups ◽  
Braid Group ◽  
Group Representations

scholarly journals Curved Rickard complexes and link homologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (769) ◽  
pp. 87-119
Author(s):  
Sabin Cautis ◽  
Aaron D. Lauda ◽  
Joshua Sussan
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Sequence ◽  
Quantum Groups ◽  
Braid Group ◽  
Derived Categories ◽  
Duke Math ◽  
Khovanov Homology ◽  
Hilbert Schemes ◽  
Coherent Sheaves ◽  
Knot Homology ◽  
Original Motivation

AbstractRickard complexes in the context of categorified quantum groups can be used to construct braid group actions. We define and study certain natural deformations of these complexes which we call curved Rickard complexes. One application is to obtain deformations of link homologies which generalize those of Batson–Seed [3] [J. Batson and C. Seed, A link-splitting spectral sequence in Khovanov homology, Duke Math. J. 164 2015, 5, 801–841] and Gorsky–Hogancamp [E. Gorsky and M. Hogancamp, Hilbert schemes and y-ification of Khovanov–Rozansky homology, preprint 2017] to arbitrary representations/partitions. Another is to relate the deformed homology defined algebro-geometrically in [S. Cautis and J. Kamnitzer, Knot homology via derived categories of coherent sheaves IV, colored links, Quantum Topol. 8 2017, 2, 381–411] to categorified quantum groups (this was the original motivation for this paper).

scholarly journals Finiteness for mapping class group representations from twisted Dijkgraaf–Witten theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (06) ◽  
pp. 1850043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul P. Gustafson
Keyword(s):  
Braid Group ◽  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Braid Groups ◽  
Fusion Category ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Group Representations ◽  
Colored Graphs ◽  
Finite Image ◽  
Spanning Set

We show that any twisted Dijkgraaf–Witten representation of a mapping class group of an orientable, compact surface with boundary has finite image. This generalizes work of Etingof et al. showing that the braid group images are finite [P. Etingof, E. C. Rowell and S. Witherspoon, Braid group representations from twisted quantum doubles of finite groups, Pacific J. Math. 234 (2008)(1) 33–42]. In particular, our result answers their question regarding finiteness of images of arbitrary mapping class group representations in the affirmative. Our approach is to translate the problem into manipulation of colored graphs embedded in the given surface. To do this translation, we use the fact that any twisted Dijkgraaf–Witten representation associated to a finite group [Formula: see text] and 3-cocycle [Formula: see text] is isomorphic to a Turaev–Viro–Barrett–Westbury (TVBW) representation associated to the spherical fusion category [Formula: see text] of twisted [Formula: see text]-graded vector spaces. The representation space for this TVBW representation is canonically isomorphic to a vector space of [Formula: see text]-colored graphs embedded in the surface [A. Kirillov, String-net model of Turaev-Viro invariants, Preprint (2011), arXiv:1106.6033 ]. By analyzing the action of the Birman generators [J. Birman, Mapping class groups and their relationship to braid groups, Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 22 (1969) 213–242] on a finite spanning set of colored graphs, we find that the mapping class group acts by permutations on a slightly larger finite spanning set. This implies that the representation has finite image.

scholarly journals Hurwitz Spaces and Braid Group Representations

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 1005-1030
Author(s):  
Eric P. Klassen ◽  
Yaacov Kopeliovich
Keyword(s):  
Braid Group ◽  
Group Representations ◽  
Hurwitz Spaces

Analogues of quantum Schubert cell algebras in PBW-deformations of quantum groups

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 1650179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongjun Xu ◽  
Dingguo Wang ◽  
Jialei Chen
Keyword(s):  
Weyl Group ◽  
Quantum Groups ◽  
Braid Group ◽  
Group Actions ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Quantum Algebras ◽  
Ore Extension ◽  
Schubert Cell ◽  
Sufficient And Necessary Condition

We focus on a class of filtered quantum algebras [Formula: see text] which are both coideal subalgebras of quantum groups and Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt (PBW)-deformations of their negative parts. In [Y. Xu and S. Yang, PBW-deformations of quantum groups, J. Algebra 408 (2014) 222–249], Xu and Yang proved that braid group actions on [Formula: see text] introduced by Kolb and Pellegrini can be used to define root vectors and construct PBW bases for [Formula: see text]. In this present paper, for each element [Formula: see text] in the Weyl group of [Formula: see text] we first introduce a subspace [Formula: see text] and a subalgebra [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] can be considered as an analogue of quantum Schubert cell algebra. Then a sufficient and necessary condition on [Formula: see text] is given for [Formula: see text]. Moreover, we prove that [Formula: see text] if and only if [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] can be generated by the same simple reflections. Finally, we characterize the algebra [Formula: see text] which can be obtained via an iterated Ore extension. Our results show that quantum groups and their PBW-deformations really have some different properties.

FERMIONS AND LINK INVARIANTS

1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (supp01a) ◽  
pp. 493-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Kauffman ◽  
H. Saleur
Keyword(s):  
Braid Group ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Knot Theory ◽  
Alexander Polynomial ◽  
Baxter Equation ◽  
Group Representations ◽  
R Matrix ◽  
Link Invariants ◽  
Linear Representations ◽  
State Models

This paper deals with various aspects of knot theory when fermionic degrees of freedom are taken into account in the braid group representations and in the state models. We discuss how the Ř matrix for the Alexander polynomial arises from the Fox differential calculus, and how it is related to the quantum group Uqgl(1,1). We investigate new families of solutions of the Yang Baxter equation obtained from "linear" representations of the braid group and exterior algebra. We study state models associated with Uqsl(n,m), and in the case n=m=1 a state model for the multivariable Alexander polynomial. We consider invariants of links in solid handlebodies and show how the non trivial topology lifts the boson fermion degeneracy that is present in S3. We use "gauge like" changes of basis to obtain invariants in thickened surfaces Σ×[0,1].

Braiding and Majorana fermions

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (09) ◽  
pp. 1743001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis H. Kauffman
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computing ◽  
Clifford Algebra ◽  
General Result ◽  
Braid Group ◽  
Clifford Algebras ◽  
Majorana Fermions ◽  
Group Representations ◽  
Topological Quantum

In this paper, we study unitary braid group representations associated with Majorana fermions. Majorana fermions are represented by Majorana operators, elements of a Clifford algebra. The paper proves a general result about braid group representations associated with Clifford algebras and compares this result with the Ivanov braiding associated with Majorana operators and with other braiding representations associated with Majorana fermions such as the Fibonacci model for universal topological quantum computing.

QUANTUM SUPERGROUPS AND LINK POLYNOMIALS

1993 ◽  
Vol 05 (03) ◽  
pp. 533-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. GOULD ◽  
I. TSOHANTJIS ◽  
A. J. BRACKEN
Keyword(s):  
Irreducible Representation ◽  
Quantum Groups ◽  
Braid Group ◽  
Usual Sense ◽  
Type I ◽  
Closed Formula ◽  
Matrix Representations ◽  
Quantum Supergroup ◽  
General Method

A general method for constructing invariants for quantum supergroups is applied to obtain a closed formula for link polynomials. For type I quantum supergroups, a realization of the braid group and corresponding link polynomial is determined, for each irreducible representation of the quantum supergroup in a certain class. Although these realizations are not matrix representations in the usual sense, nevertheless link polynomials are defined which are generalizations of those previously obtained from quantum groups. To illustrate the theory, link polynomials corresponding to the defining representations of the quantum supergroups Uq [gl(m|n)], Uq [C (m + 1)] are determined explicitly.

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