A stabilizer interpretation of the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group $\mathsf{GRT}_1(\mathbf k)$
Quantum Algebra
2026-07-10 v1
Abstract
If and are Lie algebras, then the product of their outer automorphism groups naturally acts on the set of outer Lie algebra morphisms from to ; the stabilizer of the outer class of a given such morphism is then a subgroup of . We show that this leads to two related interpretation of the Grothendieck-Teichm\"uller group , where are the Lie algebra of infinitesimal braids on the plane (resp. framed infinitesimal braids on the sphere) with 3 and 4 (resp. 4 and 5) strands: namely, it can be expressed as the joint intersection of the stabilizer groups of the outer classes of certain strand doubling morphisms and with , where is a subgroup of of outer classes of inertia-preserving automorphisms of .
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@article{arxiv.2607.09231,
title = {A stabilizer interpretation of the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group $\mathsf{GRT}_1(\mathbf k)$},
author = {Benjamin Enriquez and Hidekazu Furusho},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.09231},
year = {2026}
}
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