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The paper explores mapping class groups and their quantum field theory representations.

Based on the analogies between knot theory and number theory, we study a deformation theory for SL_2-representations of knot groups, following after Mazur's deformation theory of Galois representations. Firstly, by employing the pseudo-SL_2-representations, we prove the existence of the universal deformation of a given…

Quantum theory uses modular group representations to assign invariants to 3-manifolds.

Theory of Θ-positive representations for real closed fields.

Explains how group representations behave under subgroup restrictions.

Researchers create projective representations of Hecke groups using TQFT.

Semisimplicity proven for conformal blocks representations.

The paper studies conjugating complex representations into real ones.

Surveying Hitchin representations of Fuchsian groups.

We prove that a polar orthogonal representation of a real reductive algebraic group has the same closed orbits as the isotropy representation of a pseudo-Riemannian symmetric space. We also develop a partial structural theory of polar orthogonal representations of real reductive algebraic groups which slightly generali…

Maximal Laplacian algebras applied to invariant theory solved inverse problems.

Develops theory of Anosov representations for Fuchsian groups, showing stability and analytical properties.

Characterizes Coxeter groups with convex cocompact representations in projective space.

We adapt some of the methods of quantum Teichmüller theory to construct a family of representations of the pure braid group of the sphere.

New knot theory module shows torsion-ness in number theory.

The paper reinterprets knot group invariants using affine transformations.

GQML uses symmetries from representation theory to improve quantum machine learning.

Representation stability is a theory describing a way in which a sequence of representations of different groups is related, and essentially contains a finite amount of information. Starting with Church-Ellenberg-Farb's theory of $FI$-modules describing sequences of representations of the symmetric groups, we now have …

We express the real connective $K$ theory groups of the quaternion QL group of order $2^j\ge8$ in terms of the representation theory of by showing $ko_{4k-1}(BQL)=KSp(S^{4k+3}/τQL)$ where $tau$ is any fixed point free representation of QL in U(2k+2)

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 t…

In this easy introduction to higher gauge theory, we describe parallel transport for particles and strings in terms of 2-connections on 2-bundles. Just as ordinary gauge theory involves a gauge group, this generalization involves a gauge '2-group'. We focus on 6 examples. First, every abelian Lie group gives a Lie 2-gr…

Quantum groups created from disk configuration space homologies.

The paper explores proper actions and their relation to representation theory, with new quantitative methods.

Higgs bundles and non-abelian Hodge theory provide holomorphic methods with which to study the moduli spaces of surface group representations in a reductive Lie group G. In this paper we survey the case in which G is the isometry group of a classical Hermitian symmetric space of non-compact type. Using Morse theory on …

Theory of $H$-graded manifolds and coverings of supermanifolds.

Fast algorithm for braid group Hecke representation, applied to knot invariants.

The paper constructs representations of flat virtual braids by free group automorphisms.

Study classifies Lie group representations with non-empty boundary orbit space.

We show that representations of the loop braid group arise from Aharonov-Bohm like effects in finite 2-group (3+1)-dimensional topological higher gauge theory. For this we introduce a minimal categorification of biracks, which we call W-bikoids (welded bikoids). Our main example of W-bikoids arises from finite 2-groups…

Group equivariant neural networks simplify complex tasks with group representation theory.

We study the action of the mapping class group on the real homology of finite covers of a topological surface. We use the homological representation of the mapping class to construct a faithful infinite-dimensional representation of the mapping class group. We show that this representation detects the Nielsen-Thurston …

Extending braid group representations to singular braid monoids and groups.

These notes of a course given at IRMA in April 2009 cover some aspects of the representation theory of fundamental groups of manifolds of dimension at most 3 in compact Lie groups, mainly $\su$. We give detailed examples, develop the techniques of twisted cohomology and gauge theory. We review Chern-Simons theory and d…

Consider a finite, regular cover $Y\to X$ of finite graphs, with associated deck group $G$. We relate the topology of the cover to the structure of $H_1(Y;\mathbb{C})$ as a $G$-representation. A central object in this study is the {\em primitive homology} group $H_1^{\mathrm{prim}}(Y;\mathbb{C})\subseteq H_1(Y;\mathbb{…

Deformation K-theory associates to each discrete group G a spectrum built from spaces of finite dimensional unitary representations of G. In all known examples, this spectrum is 2-periodic above the rational cohomological dimension of G (minus 2), in the sense that T. Lawson's Bott map is an isomorphism on homotopy in …

In this paper, we study the geometric and dynamical properties of maximal representations of surface groups into Hermitian Lie groups of rank 2. Combining tools from Higgs bundle theory, the theory of Anosov representations, and pseudo-Riemannian geometry, we obtain various results of interest. We prove that these repr…

We review recent developments in the theory of Thompson group representations related to knot theory.

These lectures given in Montreal in Summer 1997 are mainly based on, and form a condensed survey of, the book by N. Chriss and V. Ginzburg: `Representation Theory and Complex Geometry', Birkhauser 1997. Various algebras arising naturally in Representation Theory such as the group algebra of a Weyl group, the universal …

Paper discusses groups where twisted Alexander polynomials vanish.

Theory of relatively Anosov representations using flow methods.

Autoencoder learns group representations from actions, improving future prediction accuracy.

Study projective representations of infinite-dimensional Hilbert-Lie groups.

The paper calculates Alexander polynomials for knots using finite group representations.

Quantum theory constructs a group and skein module for knot complements.

We calculate certain homotopy groups of the moduli spaces for representations of a compact oriented surface in the Lie groups GL(n,C) and U(p,q). Our approach relies on the interpretation of these representations in terms of Higgs bundles and uses Bott--Morse theory on the corresponding moduli spaces.

Motivated by the study of the interrelation between functorial and algebraic quantum field theory, we point out that on any locally trivial bundle of compact groups, representations up to homotopy are enough to separate points by means of the associated representations in cohomol- ogy. Furthermore, we observe that the …

Polynomial representations found in surface braid and mapping class groups.

We study the geometry and partial differential equations arising from the consideration of group-determinants, and representation theory. The simplest and most striking such example is undoubtedly that of the Humbert operator, associated with the cyclic group Z/3Z. This operator appears as a natural extension of the La…