Grothendieck--Teichmüller Symmetries of Cyclic Operads and Tangles

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Main Authors: Robertson, Marcy, Singh, Chandan
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author Robertson, Marcy
Singh, Chandan
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Singh, Chandan
contents We characterise the profinite Grothendieck-Teichmüller group $\widehat{\mathsf{GT}}$ as the group of automorphisms of the profinite completion of a cyclic operad of parenthesised ribbon braids. This operad generates a symmetric monoidal category which is equivalent to the category of framed, oriented tangles, thereby providing an operadic model for profinite tangles and their arithmetic symmetries. As applications, we show that $\widehat{\mathsf{GT}}$ acts naturally on tangles and provide an alternative proof of the formality of the cyclic framed little disks operad.
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spellingShingle Grothendieck--Teichmüller Symmetries of Cyclic Operads and Tangles
Robertson, Marcy
Singh, Chandan
Algebraic Topology
Category Theory
Quantum Algebra
55, 18, 18M05, 18M60, 18M75
We characterise the profinite Grothendieck-Teichmüller group $\widehat{\mathsf{GT}}$ as the group of automorphisms of the profinite completion of a cyclic operad of parenthesised ribbon braids. This operad generates a symmetric monoidal category which is equivalent to the category of framed, oriented tangles, thereby providing an operadic model for profinite tangles and their arithmetic symmetries. As applications, we show that $\widehat{\mathsf{GT}}$ acts naturally on tangles and provide an alternative proof of the formality of the cyclic framed little disks operad.
title Grothendieck--Teichmüller Symmetries of Cyclic Operads and Tangles
topic Algebraic Topology
Category Theory
Quantum Algebra
55, 18, 18M05, 18M60, 18M75
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05911