We introduce the idea of a geometric categorical Lie algebra action on derived categories of coherent sheaves. The main result is that such an action induces an action of the braid group associated to the Lie algebra. The same proof shows that strong categorical actions in the sense of Khovanov-Lauda and Rouquier also lead to braid group actions. As an example, we construct an action of Artin’s...

We show that a transverse link in a contact structure supported by an open book decomposition can be transversely braided. We also generalize Markov’s theorem on when the closures of two braids represent (transversely) isotopic links.

Note that both the eigen-Majoranas γn,α and the eigenvalues n are time dependent. Degeneracies of the many-body spectrum can arise when one or more of the eigenvalues n vanish or when some nonzero n is degenerate, independent of time. The various Majorana operators associated with each single-particle eigenvalue n are labeled by the index α. If the single-particle eigenvalue n is N-fold degener...

The purpose of this paper is to put into a noncommutative context basic notions related to vector fields from classical differential geometry. The manner of exposition is an attempt to make the material as accessible as possible to classical geometers. The definition of vector field used is a specialisation of the Cartan pair definition, and the paper relies on the idea of generalised braidings...

According to a basic rule of fermionic and bosonic many-body physics, known as the linked cluster theorem, physical observables are not affected by vacuum bubbles, which represent virtual particles created from vacuum and self-annihilating without interacting with real particles. Here we show that this conventional knowledge must be revised for anyons, quasiparticles that obey fractional exchan...

The squashing factor Q (Titov et al. 2002), a property of the magnetic field line mapping, has been suggested as an indicator for the formation of current sheets, and subsequently magnetic reconnection, in astrophysical plasmas. Here we test this hypothesis for a particular class of braided magnetic fields which serve as a model for solar coronal loops. We explore the relationship between Quasi...

In this paper we prove that certain matrix elements of vertex operators of deformed W-algebra satisfy Macdonald difference equations and form n! -dimensional space of solutions. These solutions are the analogues of Harish Chandra solutions with prescribed asymptotic behavior. We obtain formulas for analytic continuation as a consequence of braiding properties of vertex operators of deformed W-a...

We examine interferometric experiments in systems that exhibit non-Abelian braiding statistics, expressing outcomes in terms of the modular S-matrix. In particular, this result applies to fractional quantum Hall interferometry, and we give a detailed treatment of the Read-Rezayi states, providing explicit predictions for the recently observed nu = 12/5 plateau.

We show that any pointed Hopf algebra with infinitesimal braiding associated to the conjugacy class of π ∈ Sn is infinitedimensional, if either the order of π is odd, or π is a product of disjoint cycles of odd order except for exactly two transpositions.