Heisenberg homology on surface configurations

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Auteurs principaux: Blanchet, Christian, Palmer, Martin, Shaukat, Awais
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author Blanchet, Christian
Palmer, Martin
Shaukat, Awais
author_facet Blanchet, Christian
Palmer, Martin
Shaukat, Awais
contents Motivated by the Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow representations of the classical braid groups, we study the homology of unordered configurations in an orientable genus-$g$ surface with one boundary component, over non-commutative local systems defined from representations of the discrete Heisenberg group. Mapping classes act on the local systems and for a general representation of the Heisenberg group we obtain a representation of the mapping class group that is twisted by this action. For the linearisation of the affine translation action of the Heisenberg group we obtain a genuine, untwisted representation of the mapping class group. In the case of the generic Schrödinger representation, by composing with a Stone-von Neumann isomorphism we obtain a projective representation by bounded operators on a Hilbert space, which lifts to a representation of the stably universal central extension of the mapping class group. We also discuss the finite dimensional Schrödinger representations, especially in the even case. Based on a natural intersection pairing, we show that our representations preserve a sesquilinear form.
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spellingShingle Heisenberg homology on surface configurations
Blanchet, Christian
Palmer, Martin
Shaukat, Awais
Geometric Topology
Algebraic Topology
57K20, 55R80, 55N25, 20C12, 19C09
Motivated by the Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow representations of the classical braid groups, we study the homology of unordered configurations in an orientable genus-$g$ surface with one boundary component, over non-commutative local systems defined from representations of the discrete Heisenberg group. Mapping classes act on the local systems and for a general representation of the Heisenberg group we obtain a representation of the mapping class group that is twisted by this action. For the linearisation of the affine translation action of the Heisenberg group we obtain a genuine, untwisted representation of the mapping class group. In the case of the generic Schrödinger representation, by composing with a Stone-von Neumann isomorphism we obtain a projective representation by bounded operators on a Hilbert space, which lifts to a representation of the stably universal central extension of the mapping class group. We also discuss the finite dimensional Schrödinger representations, especially in the even case. Based on a natural intersection pairing, we show that our representations preserve a sesquilinear form.
title Heisenberg homology on surface configurations
topic Geometric Topology
Algebraic Topology
57K20, 55R80, 55N25, 20C12, 19C09
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00515