arXiv research

New central elements found in a quantum algebra related to knot theory.

Decomposes $SL_3$ skein algebras for surfaces.

Define web algebras for annular SL(2) and SL(3) using foam TQFTs.

The paper studies properties of stated SL(n)-skein algebras and their centers.

Quantum cluster algebra constructed from web skein relations on surfaces.

In this paper we use Kuperberg's $\mathfrak{sl}_3$-webs and Khovanov's $\mathfrak{sl}_3$-foams to define a new algebra $K^S$, which we call the $\mathfrak{sl}_3$-web algebra. It is the $\mathfrak{sl}_3$ analogue of Khovanov's arc algebra. We prove that $K^S$ is a graded symmetric Frobenius algebra. Furthermore, we cate…

Let S be a path-connected, locally-compact CW-complex, and let M be a subcomplex with finitely-many components. A `decorated SL_2(C)-local system' is an SL_2(C)-local system on S, together with a choice of `decoration' at each component of M (a section of the stalk of an associated vector bundle). We study the (decorat…

Computes Lie algebra structure constants using a graphical calculus.

New proof of SL(n) skein algebra for twice punctured sphere, showing it's a polynomial algebra.

Extends knot invariant computation to symmetrically colored sl_N.

By computing certain cohomology of Vect(M) of smooth vector fields we prove that on 1-dimensional manifolds M there is no quantization map intertwining the action of non-projective embeddings of the Lie algebra sl(2) into the Lie algebra Vect(M). Contrariwise, for projective embeddings sl(2)-equivariant quantization ex…

It is known that the hyperbolic plane admits a countable infinity of compactifications into a closed disk such that the isometric action of SL(2;R) acts analytically on the compactified space. We prove that among those compactifications, only the two most classical ones (namely the closures of Poincaré's disk and Klein…

The universal sl_2 invariant of bottom tangles has a universality property for the colored Jones polynomial of links. Habiro conjectured that the universal sl_2 invariant of boundary bottom tangles takes values in certain subalgebras of the completed tensor powers of the quantized enveloping algebra U_h(sl_2) of the Li…

This paper upgrades Khovanov homology to an L-infinity module structure.

We give an explicit graded cellular basis of the $\mathfrak{sl}_3$-web algebra $K_S$. In order to do this, we identify Kuperberg's basis for the $\mathfrak{sl}_3$-web space $W_S$ with a version of Leclerc-Toffin's intermediate crystal basis and we identify Brundan, Kleshchev and Wang's degree of tableaux with the weigh…

The paper provides coordinates for ${ m SL}_3$-web diagrams on surfaces.

Lifts an $\mathfrak{sl}_2$ action to annular Khovanov homology's stable refinement.

We study the algebraic and geometric properties of stated skein algebras of surfaces with punctured boundary. We prove that the skein algebra of the bigon is isomorphic to the quantum group ${\mathcal O}_{q^2}(\mathrm{SL}(2))$ providing a topological interpretation for its structure morphisms. We also show that its sta…

The paper explores algebraic properties of Alexander polynomials and Reidemeister torsions for torus knots.

The paper studies geometric structures on SL(n,R) induced by the Killing form.

Found a basis and presentation for a specific algebra.

Proofs centerless unimodular contact Lie algebras.

This is the third article in the series begun with [BonWon3, BonWon4], devoted to finite-dimensional representations of the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of an oriented surface $S$. In [BonWon3] we associated a classical shadow to an irreducible representation $ρ$ of the skein algebra, which is a character $r_ρ\in \ma…

Study centers of quantum tori and skein algebras for even roots of unity.

In earlier work, Helen Wong and the author discovered certain "miraculous cancellations" for the quantum trace map connecting the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of a surface to its quantum Teichmueller space, occurring when the quantum parameter $q$ is a root of unity. The current paper is devoted to giving a more repr…

Let X be the moduli space of SL(3,C) representations of a free group of rank r. In this paper we describe maximal algebraically independent subsets of certain minimal sets of coordinate functions on X. These subsets locally parametrize the moduli space.

Consider a compact surface of genus at least two. We prove that the first cohomology group of the mapping class group with coefficients in the space of algebraic functions on the SL(2, C) moduli space vanishes.

Study Poisson cohomology and linearize Lie algebra structures.

The paper explains why a specific type of link homology is useful.

Study of adjoint orbits in simplest non-trivial Lie algebra case.

The paper constructs compatible Poisson brackets on gl(N).

We construct families of differential graded algebras R and R \boxtimes R and give an algebraic formulation of the contact category of a disk through the differential graded category DGP(R) generated by some distinguished projective differential graded R-modules. The homology category H^0(DGP(R)) is a triangulated cate…

These lecture notes concern the algebraic geometry of the character variety of a finitely generated group in SL(2,C) from the point of view of skein modules. We focus on the case of surface and 3-manifolds groups and construct the Reidemeister torsion as a rational volume form on the character variety.

Establishes a connection between skein modules and algebraic sets.

A bottom tangle is a tangle in a cube consisting of arc components whose boundary points are on a line in the bottom square of the cube. A ribbon bottom tangle is a bottom tangle whose closure is a ribbon link. For every n-component ribbon bottom tangle T, we prove that the universal invariant J_T of T associated to th…

The main topic of this paper is two folds. First, we compute the first relative cohomology group of the Lie algebra of smooth vector fields on the projective line, Vect(RP^1), with coefficients in the space of bilinear differential operators that act on tensor densities, D_{λ, ν;μ}, vanishing on the Lie algebra sl(2,R)…

We introduce three non-trivial 2-cocycles $c_k$, k=0,1,2, on the Lie algebra $S^3H=Map(S^3,H)$ with the aid of the corresponding basis vector fields on $S^3$, and extend them to 2-cocycles on the Lie algebra $S^3gl(n,H)=S^3H \otimes gl(n,C)$. Then we have the corresponding central extension $S^3gl(n,H)\oplus \oplus_k (…

We consider two different quantizations of the character variety consisting of all representations of surface groups in SL_2. One is the skein algebra considered by Przytycki-Sikora and Turaev. The other is the quantum Teichmuller space introduced by Chekhov-Fock and Kashaev. We construct a homomorphism from the skein …

Formula for colored invariants of torus knots linked to $\mathcal{W}_r$ algebras.

We construct a flat (and fake-flat) 2-connection in the configuration space of $n$ indistinguishable particles in the complex plane, which categorifies the $sl(2,C)$-Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov connection obtained from the adjoint representation of $sl(2,C)$. This will be done by considering the adjoint categorical represen…

The purpose of this paper is to provide an octonionic description of the Lie group $SL(2,{\mathbb O})$. The main result states that it can be obtained as a free group generated by invertible and determinant preserving transformations from $\mathfrak{h}_2({\mathbb O})$ onto itself. An interesting characterization is giv…

Characters from logarithmic VOAs linked to torus link invariants.

We show the correspondence between left invariant flat projective structures on Lie groups and certain prehomogeneous vector spaces. Moreover by using the classification theory of prehomogeneous vector spaces, we classify complex Lie groups admitting irreducible left invariant flat complex projective structures. As a r…

We investigate the properties of principal elements of Frobenius Lie algebras, following the work of M. Gerstenhaber and A. Giaquinto. We prove that any Lie algebra with a left symmetric algebra structure can be embedded, in a natural way, as a subalgebra of some sl(m,K), for K= R or C. Hence, the work of Belavin and D…

Let Vect(R) be the Lie algebra of smooth vector fields on R. The space of symbols Pol(T^* R) admits a non-trivial deformation (given by differential operators on weighted densities) as a Vect(R)-module that becomes trivial once the action is restricted to sl(2). The deformations of Pol(T^* R), which become trivial once…

We give a diagrammatic definition of $U_q(sl_2)$ when $q$ is not a root of unity, including its Hopf algebra structure and its relationship with the Temperley-Lieb category.

Second part of proving linearization theorem for sl2(C).

The paper classifies and decomposes quaternionic projective transformations.