PURE BRAIDS AS AUTOMORPHISMS OF FREE GROUPS

2005 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
pp. 435-440
Author(s):  
MOHAMMAD N. ABDULRAHIM

We study the composition of F. R. Cohen's map Pn → Pnk with the Gassner representation, where Pn is the pure braid group. This gives us a linear representation of Pn whose composition factors are one copy of the Gassner representation of Pn and k - 1 copies of a diagonal representation, hence a direct sum of one-dimensional representations.

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (08) ◽  
pp. 1087-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
VALERIJ G. BARDAKOV

We construct a linear representation of the group IA (Fn) of IA-automorphisms of a free group Fn, an extension of the Gassner representation of the pure braid group Pn. Although the problem of faithfulness of the Gassner representation is still open for n > 3, we prove that the restriction of our representation to the group of basis conjugating automorphisms Cbn contains a non-trivial kernel even if n = 2. We construct also an extension of the Burau representation to the group of conjugating automorphisms Cn. This representation is not faithful for n ≥ 2.


2003 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 169-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
MOHAMMAD N. ABDULRAHIM

A lot of linear representations of the braid group, Bn, arise as a result of treating braids as automorphisms of a free group. In this paper, we consider the composition of F. R. Cohen's map Bn → Bnk and the embedding Bnk → Aut (Fnk). This gives us a linear representation of Bn whose composition factors are one copy of the Burau representation and k - 1 copies of the standard representation, a representation investigated by I. Sysoeva.


2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (13) ◽  
pp. 1541009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vassily Olegovich Manturov ◽  
Igor Mikhailovich Nikonov

In [Non-reidemeister knot theory and its applications in dynamical systems, geometry, and topology, preprint (2015), arXiv:1501.05208.] the first author gave the definition of [Formula: see text]-free braid groups [Formula: see text]. Here we establish connections between free braid groups, classical braid groups and free groups: we describe explicitly the homomorphism from (pure) braid group to [Formula: see text]-free braid groups for important cases [Formula: see text]. On the other hand, we construct a homomorphism from (a subgroup of) free braid groups to free groups. The relations established would allow one to construct new invariants of braids and to define new powerful and easily calculated complexities for classical braid groups.


2013 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
DONALD W. BARNES

AbstractFor a Lie algebra $L$ over an algebraically closed field $F$ of nonzero characteristic, every finite dimensional $L$-module can be decomposed into a direct sum of submodules such that all composition factors of a summand have the same character. Using the concept of a character cluster, this result is generalised to fields which are not algebraically closed. Also, it is shown that if the soluble Lie algebra $L$ is in the saturated formation $\mathfrak{F}$ and if $V, W$ are irreducible $L$-modules with the same cluster and the $p$-operation vanishes on the centre of the $p$-envelope used, then $V, W$ are either both $\mathfrak{F}$-central or both $\mathfrak{F}$-eccentric. Clusters are used to generalise the construction of induced modules.


1980 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham S.-T. Lue

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 899-913 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. FLEURY ◽  
M. RAUSCH DE TRAUBENBERG

A group theory justification of one-dimensional fractional supersymmetry is proposed using an analog of a coset space, just like the one introduced in 1-D supersymmetry. This theory is then gauged to obtain a local fractional supersymmetry, i.e. a fractional supergravity which is then quantized à la Dirac to obtain an equation of motion for a particle which is in a representation of the braid group and should describe alternative statistics. A formulation invariant under general reparametrization is given by means of a curved fractional superline.


1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Gaboriau ◽  
G. Levitt ◽  
M. Lustig

Let α be an automorphism of a free group of rank n. The Scott conjecture, proved by Bestvina-Handel, asserts that the fixed subgroup of α has rank at most n. We give a short alternative proof of this result using R-trees.


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