Braid group representations from twisted tensor products of algebras

2019/06/19 by Gustafson, Paul, Kimball, Andrew, Rowell, Eric C. +1
#FOS: Mathematics #Quantum Algebra (math.QA) #Representation Theory (math.RT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1906.08153

Abstract

We unify and generalize several approaches to constructing braid group representations from finite groups, using iterated twisted tensor products. Our results hint at a relationship between the braidings on the G-gaugings of a pointed modular category C(A,Q) and that of C(A,Q) itself.

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