NEW SOLUTIONS OF YANG-BAXTER EQUATION AND NEW LINK POLYNOMIALS

1992 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 31-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
YI CHENG ◽  
MO-LIN GE ◽  
G. C. LIU ◽  
KANG XUE

A new family of braid group representations associated with Lie algebras An, Bn, Cn and Dn is proved to be Birman-Wenzl algebra, then Yang-Baxterize them to trigonometric and rational solutions of YBE. New link polynomials are set up.

1991 ◽  
Vol 06 (04) ◽  
pp. 559-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. COUTURE ◽  
Y. CHENG ◽  
M.L. GE ◽  
K. XUE

Through the examples associated with simple Lie algebras B2, C2 and D2, an approach of constructing new solutions of the spectral-independent Yang-Baxter equation (i.e. the braid group representations) was shown. These new solutions possess some particular features, such as that they do not have the classical limit in the usual sense of Refs. 2, 5, etc., and give rise to the new solutions of the x-dependent Yang-Baxter equation by using the Yang-Baxterization prescription.


1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (supp01a) ◽  
pp. 493-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Kauffman ◽  
H. Saleur

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].


2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (04) ◽  
pp. 525-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
JENNIFER M. FRANKO

This paper aims to determine the images of the braid group under representations afforded by the Yang–Baxter equation when the solution is a non-trivial 4 × 4 matrix. Making the assumption that all the eigenvalues of the Yang–Baxter solution are roots of unity, leads to the conclusion that all the images are finite. Using results of Turaev, we have also identified cases in which one would get a link invariant. Finally, by observing the group algebra generated by the image of the braid group sometimes factor through known algebras, in certain instances we can identify the invariant as particular specializations of a known invariant.


2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (08) ◽  
pp. 949-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. SCOTT CARTER ◽  
MASAHICO SAITO

We construct solutions to the set–theoretic Yang–Baxter equation using braid group representations in free group automorphisms and their Fox differentials. The method resembles the extensions of groups and quandles.


2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (09) ◽  
pp. 1250087 ◽  
Author(s):  
REBECCA S. CHEN

Solutions to the Yang–Baxter equation — an important equation in mathematics and physics — and their afforded braid group representations have applications in fields such as knot theory, statistical mechanics, and, most recently, quantum information science. In particular, unitary representations of the braid group are desired because they generate braiding quantum gates. These are actively studied in the ongoing research into topological quantum computing. A generalized Yang–Baxter equation was proposed a few years ago by Eric Rowell et al. By finding solutions to the generalized Yang–Baxter equation, we obtain new unitary braid group representations. Our representations give rise to braiding quantum gates and thus have the potential to aid in the construction of useful quantum computers.


2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (04) ◽  
pp. 413-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
JENNIFER M. FRANKO ◽  
ERIC C. ROWELL ◽  
ZHENGHAN WANG

We investigate a family of (reducible) representations of the braid groups [Formula: see text] corresponding to a specific solution to the Yang–Baxter equation. The images of [Formula: see text] under these representations are finite groups, and we identify them precisely as extensions of extra-special 2-groups. The decompositions of the representations into their irreducible constituents are determined, which allows us to relate them to the well-known Jones representations of [Formula: see text] factoring over Temperley–Lieb algebras and the corresponding link invariants.


1989 ◽  
Vol 04 (09) ◽  
pp. 2333-2370 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. LEE ◽  
M. L. GE ◽  
M. COUTURE ◽  
Y. S. WU

The statistics of fields in low dimensions is studied from the point of view of the braid group Bn of n strings. Explicit representations MR for the N-component model, N=2 to 5, are derived by solving the Yang-Baxter-like braid group relations for the statistical matrix R, which describes the transformation of the bilinear product of two N-component fields under the transposition of coordinates. When R2≠1 the statistics is neither Bose-Einstein nor Fermi-Dirac; it is strange. It is shown that for each N, the N+1 parameter family of solutions obtained is the most general one under a given set of constraints including “charge” conservation. Extended Nth order (N>2) Alexander-Conway relations for link polynomials are derived. They depend nonhomogeneously only on one of the N+1 parameters. The N=3 and 4 ones agree with those previously derived by Akutsu et al. Flat connections ω defining integrable systems of the N-component model are derived from the representations. The monodromy of the solution of such a system also carries a representation Mω of Pn⊂Bn. For N=2, Mω=MR, but the equality may not hold in general. The connections also lead directly to solutions of the classical Yang-Baxter equation. A generalization of Kohno’s monodromy representation of Bn associated with the algebra sl(N,C) is given. Applications of the braid group representations to statistical models, conformal field theory and many-body systems of extended objects are briefly discussed.


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