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Some unitary representations of Thompson's groups F and T

Group Theory 2014-12-25 v1 Mathematical Physics Geometric Topology math.MP Operator Algebras Representation Theory

Abstract

In a "naive" attempt to create algebraic quantum field theories on the circle, we obtain a family of unitary representations of Thompson's groups T and F for any subfactor. The Thompson group elements are the "local scale transformations" of the theory. In a simple case the coefficients of the representations are polynomial invariants of links. We show that all links arise and introduce new "oriented" subgroups F<F\overrightarrow F <F and T<T\overrightarrow T< T which allow us to produce all \emph{oriented} knots and links.

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@article{arxiv.1412.7740,
  title  = {Some unitary representations of Thompson's groups F and T},
  author = {Vaughan F. R. Jones},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.7740},
  year   = {2014}
}