Representations of braid groups via conjugation actions on congruence subgroups

辫群模其同余子群的商群

Quotients of braid groups by their congruence subgroups

该研究解决了Dan Margalit提出的公开问题，确定了辫群同余子群在整一般线性群中的像，并利用辛同余子群刻画了辫群模同余子群的商群结构。

Cohomology of braids, principal congruence subgroups and geometric representations

The main purpose of this article is to give the integral cohomology of classical principal congruence subgroups in SL(2,Z) as well as their analogues in the third braid group with local coefficients in symmetric powers of the natural symplectic representation. The resulting answers (1) correspond to certain modular forms in characteristic zero, and (2) the cohomology of certain spaces in homotopy theory in characteristic p. The torsion is given in terms of the structure of a "p-divided power algebra". The work is an extension of the work in arXiv:1204.5390v1 as well as extensions of a classica…

Knot theory in handlebodies

We consider oriented knots and links in a handlebody of genus $g$ through appropriate braid representatives in $S^3$, which are elements of the braid groups $B_{g,n}$. We prove a geometric version of the Markov theorem for braid equivalence in the handlebody, which is based on the $L$-moves. Using this we then prove two algebraic versions of the Markov theorem. The first one uses the $L$-moves. The second one uses the Markov moves and conjugation in the groups $B_{g,n}$. We show that not all conjugations correspond to isotopies.

The stable braid group and the determinant of the Burau representation

This article gives certain fibre bundles associated to the braid groups which are obtained from a translation as well as conjugation on the complex plane. The local coefficient systems on the level of homology for these bundles are given in terms of the determinant of the Burau representation. De Concini, Procesi, and Salvetti [Topology 40 (2001) 739--751] considered the cohomology of the n-th braid group B_n with local coefficients obtained from the determinant of the Burau representation, H^*(B_n;Q[t^{+/-1}]). They show that these cohomology groups are given in terms of cyclotomic fields. Th…

模4辫群的上同调

The Cohomology of the Mod 4 Braid Group

本文构造了分类模4辫群扩张的2-上循环，证明其为已知上循环的模2约化，并给出扩张表示及level 4同余子群的正规生成集。

Representation theory and homological stability

We introduce the idea of *representation stability* (and several variations) for a sequence of representations V_n of groups G_n. A central application of the new viewpoint we introduce here is the importation of representation theory into the study of homological stability. This makes it possible to extend classical theorems of homological stability to a much broader variety of examples. Representation stability also provides a framework in which to find and to predict patterns, from classical representation theory (Littlewood--Richardson and Murnaghan rules, stability of Schur functors), to …