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We refine Cohen and Lustig's description of centralisers of Dehn twists of free groups. We show that the centraliser of a Dehn twist of a free group has a subgroup of finite index that has a finite classifying space. We describe an algorithm to find a presentation of the centraliser. We use this algorithm to give an ex…
The thesis explores centralisers and Hecke algebras in representation theory with applications to knots and physics.
problem Understanding centralisers and Hecke algebras in representation theory.
method Review of classical and quantum Schur-Weyl duality, discussion of quantum groups and their centralisers, and application to knot theory and physics.
result New insights into centralisers and Hecke algebras, leading to solutions for the Yang-Baxter equation and link invariants.
We introduce the palindromic automorphism group and the palindromic Torelli group of a right-angled Artin group A_G. The palindromic automorphism group Pi A_G is related to the principal congruence subgroups of GL(n,Z) and to the hyperelliptic mapping class group of an oriented surface, and sits inside the centraliser …
Study growth rates of automorphisms of special groups.
problem Understanding the growth rates of automorphisms of special groups.
method Analyzing outer automorphisms of virtually special groups, showing polynomial or exponential growth, and constructing Nielsen-Thurston decompositions.
result Outer automorphism groups of virtually special groups are boundary amenable, have finite virtual cohomological dimension, and satisfy the Tits alternative.
We describe a new class of holonomy groups on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. Namely, we prove the following theorem. Let g be a nondegenerate bilinear form on a vector space V, and L:V -> V a g-symmetric operator. Then the identity component of the centraliser of L in SO(g) is a holonomy group for a suitable Levi-Civita …
Fix a simple complex Lie group G and a principal sl(2,C) subalgebra of Lie(G). Then the moduli space of semi-stable, topologically trivial G-Higgs bundles on a hyperbolic, spin Riemann surface acquires a marked point. This is the unique C*-fixed point on the Hitchin section. We describe a universal analytic family of d…
We provide two distributed confidence ball algorithms for solving linear bandit problems in peer to peer networks with limited communication capabilities. For the first, we assume that all the peers are solving the same linear bandit problem, and prove that our algorithm achieves the optimal asymptotic regret rate of a…
Let t_a be the Dehn twist about a circle a on an orientable surface. It is well known that for each circle b and an integer n, I(t_a^n(b),b)=|n|I(a,b)^2, where I(,) is the geometric intersection number. We prove a similar formula for circles on nonorientable surfaces. As a corollary we prove some algebraic properties o…
Garside groupoids, as recently introduced by Krammer, generalise Garside groups. A weak Garside group is a group that is equivalent as a category to a Garside groupoid. We show that any periodic loop in a Garside groupoid $\CG$ may be viewed as a Garside element for a certain Garside structure on another Garside groupo…
Study on conformal transformations of Cahen-Wallach spaces, focusing on fixed points and discontinuous groups.
problem Characterizing conformal transformations of Cahen-Wallach spaces.
method Analyzing conformal transformations of indecomposable Lorentzian symmetric spaces, focusing on fixed points and discontinuous groups.
result Essential conformal transformations of conformally curved Cahen-Wallach spaces have fixed points, and such transformations cannot centralize essential homotheties.
We consider linear groups which do not contain unipotent elements of infinite order, which includes all linear groups in positive characteristic, and show that this class of groups has good properties which resemble those held by groups of non positive curvature and which do not hold for arbitrary characteristic zero l…
We study the problem of determining the isomorphism classes of the virtually cyclic subgroups of the n-string braid groups B_n(S^2) of the 2-sphere S^2. If n is odd, or if n is even and sufficiently large, we obtain the complete classification. For small even values of n, the classification is complete up to an explici…