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Split Grothendieck rings of rooted trees and skew shapes via monoid representations
We study commutative ring structures on the integral span of rooted trees and
-dimensional skew shapes. The multiplication in these rings arises from the
smash product operation on monoid representations in pointed sets. We interpret
these as Grothendieck rings of indecomposable monoid representations over
\fun - the "field" of one element. We also study the base-change homomorphism
from \mt-modules to -modules for a field containing all roots of
unity, and interpret the result in terms of Jordan decompositions of adjacency
matrices of certain graphs.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1706.0390
Hopf Algebras in General and in Combinatorial Physics: a practical introduction
This tutorial is intended to give an accessible introduction to Hopf
algebras. The mathematical context is that of representation theory, and we
also illustrate the structures with examples taken from combinatorics and
quantum physics, showing that in this latter case the axioms of Hopf algebra
arise naturally. The text contains many exercises, some taken from physics,
aimed at expanding and exemplifying the concepts introduced
Excision for deformation K-theory of free products
Associated to a discrete group , one has the topological category of
finite dimensional (unitary) -representations and (unitary) isomorphisms.
Block sums provide this category with a permutative structure, and the
associated -theory spectrum is Carlsson's deformation -theory of G. The
goal of this paper is to examine the behavior of this functor on free products.
Our main theorem shows the square of spectra associated to (considered as
an amalgamated product over the trivial group) is homotopy cartesian. The proof
uses a general result regarding group completions of homotopy commutative
topological monoids, which may be of some independent interest.Comment: 32 pages, 1 figure. Final version: The title has changed, and the
paper has been substantially revised to improve clarit
The topological Atiyah-Segal map
Associated to each finite dimensional linear representation of a group ,
there is a vector bundle over the classifying space . We introduce a
framework for studying this construction in the context of infinite discrete
groups, taking into account the topology of representation spaces.
This involves studying the homotopy group completion of the topological
monoid formed by all unitary (or general linear) representations of , under
the monoid operation given by block sum. In order to work effectively with this
object, we prove a general result showing that for certain homotopy commutative
topological monoids , the homotopy groups of can be described
explicitly in terms of unbased homotopy classes of maps from spheres into .
Several applications are developed. We relate our constructions to the
Novikov conjecture; we show that the space of flat unitary connections over the
3-dimensional Heisenberg manifold has extremely large homotopy groups; and for
groups that satisfy Kazhdan's property (T) and admit a finite classifying
space, we show that the reduced -theory class associated to a spherical
family of finite dimensional unitary representations is always torsion.Comment: 57 pages. Comments welcome
Multi-Colour Braid-Monoid Algebras
We define multi-colour generalizations of braid-monoid algebras and present
explicit matrix representations which are related to two-dimensional exactly
solvable lattice models of statistical mechanics. In particular, we show that
the two-colour braid-monoid algebra describes the Yang-Baxter algebra of the
critical dilute A-D-E models which were recently introduced by Warnaar,
Nienhuis, and Seaton as well as by Roche. These and other solvable models
related to dense and dilute loop models are discussed in detail and it is shown
that the solvability is a direct consequence of the algebraic structure. It is
conjectured that the Yang-Baxterization of general multi-colour braid-monoid
algebras will lead to the construction of further solvable lattice models.Comment: 32 page
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