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We introduce a class of inverse monoids that can be regarded as non-commutative generalizations of Boolean algebras. These inverse monoids are related to a class of \'etale topological groupoids, under a non-commutative generalization of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Mark V Lawson

A prefix monoid is a finitely generated submonoid of a finitely presented group generated by the prefixes of its defining relators. Important results of Guba (1997), and of Ivanov, Margolis and Meakin (2001), show how the word problem for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Igor Dolinka , Robert D. Gray

Herein we prove that if $M$ is a compact oriented Riemann surface of genus $g$, and $M^{[n]}$ is the classifying space of $n$ distinct, unordered points on $M$, then the kernel of the map $\pi_1(M^{[n]})\to H_1(M)$ is generated by…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Jeremy Copeland

Every smooth minimal complex algebraic surface of general type, $X$, may be mapped into a moduli space, $\MM_{c_1^2(X), c_2(X)}$, of minimal surfaces of general type, all of which have the same Chern numbers. Using the braid group and braid…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Arthur Robb , Mina Teicher

It is known that the Lawrence-Krammer representation of the Artin group of type $A_{n-1}$ based on the two parameters $t$ and $q$ that was used by Krammer and independently by Bigelow to show the linearity of the braid group on $n$ strands…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2008-10-30 Claire Isabelle Levaillant

A PROB is a "product and braid" category. Such categories can be used to encode the structure borne by an object in a braided monoidal category. In this paper we provide PROBs whose categories of algebras in a braided monoidal category are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Daniel Graves

The structure of monoidal categories in which every arrow is invertible is analyzed in this paper, where we develop a 3-dimensional Schreier-Grothendieck theory of non-abelian factor sets for their classification. In particular, we state…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-12-19 María Calvo , Antonio M. Cegarra , Benjamín A. Heredia

Braid groups are an important and flexible tool used in several areas of science, such as Knot Theory (Alexander's theorem), Mathematical Physics (Yang-Baxter's equation) and Algebraic Geometry (monodromy invariants). In this note we will…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Francesco Polizzi

A group-category is an additively semisimple category with a monoidal product structure in which the simple objects are invertible. For example in the category of representations of a group, 1-dimensional representations are the invertible…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Quinn

We study properties of the forgotten monoid which appeared in work of Lascoux and Schutzenberger and recently resurfaced in the construction of dual equivalence graphs by Assaf. In particular, we provide an explicit characterization of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-06-19 Jean-Christophe Novelli , Anne Schilling

Bonded knots arise naturally in topological protein modeling, where intramolecular interactions such as disulfide bridges stabilize folded configurations. These structures extend classical knot theory by incorporating embedded graphs, and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Paolo Cavicchioli , Boštjan Gabrovšek , Matic Simonič

Artin groups of finite type are not as well understood as braid groups. This is due to the additional geometric properties of braid groups coming from their close connection to mapping class groups. For each Artin group of finite type, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Mladen Bestvina

Given a presentably symmetric monoidal $\infty$-category $\mathcal{C}$ and an $\mathbb{E}_{\infty}$-monoid $M$, we introduce and classify twisted graded categories, which generalize the Day convolution structure on $\mathrm{Fun}(M,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Shai Keidar , Shaul Ragimov

We generalise the Milnor-Schwarz lemma to inverse monoids acting on presheaves of geodesic metric spaces. We provide two proofs of this fact: one only uses elementary techniques, inspired by the arguments for group actions on metric spaces;…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Giorgio Mangioni , Francesco Tesolin

We describe the automorphism groups of reductive monoids and of root monoids with active groups of invertible elements.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Anton Shafarevich

Braid Floer homology is an invariant of proper relative braid classes. Closed integral curves of 1-periodic Hamiltonian vector fields on the 2-disc may be regarded as braids. If the Braid Floer homology of associated proper relative braid…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-04 Simone Munaò , Rob Vandervorst

This paper introduces monoidal (super)categories resembling the Brauer category. For all categories, we can construct bases of the hom-spaces using Brauer diagrams. These categories include the Brauer category, its deformation the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Sigiswald Barbier

In this paper we define a monoid called the equivariant Brauer semigroup for a locally compact Hausdorff groupoid E whose elements consist of Morita equivalence classes of E-dynamical systems. This construction generalizes both the…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2012-08-30 Jonathan Henry Brown , Geoff Goehle

We introduce the notion of a braiding on a skew monoidal category, whose curious feature is that the defining isomorphisms involve three objects rather than two. These braidings are shown to arise from, and classify, cobraidings (also known…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-29 John Bourke , Stephen Lack

We examine from an invariant theory viewpoint the monoid algebras for two monoids having large symmetry groups. The first monoid is the free left-regular band on $n$ letters, defined on the set of all injective words, that is, the words…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Sarah Brauner , Patricia Commins , Victor Reiner