We consider the union of two pants decompositions of the same orientable 2-dimensional surface of any genus g. Each pants decomposition corresponds to a handlebody bounded by this surface, so two pants decompositions correspond to a Heegaard splitting of a 3manifold. We introduce a groupoid acting on double pants decompositions. This groupoid is generated by two simple transformations (called f...

Multiple twinning in cubic crystals is represented geometrically by a three-dimensional fractal and algebraically by a groupoid. In this groupoid, the variant crystals are the objects, the misorientations between the variants are the operations, and the Sigma3(n) operators are the different types of operations (expressed by sets of equivalent operations). A general formula gives the number of v...

We construct an endofunctor of paths in the category of small category and show how to construct the standard homotopy invariants from it. We give a novel proof that the fundamental groupoid of a category is its associated universal groupoid.

In 1949, M. Sholander [4] showed that every medial cancellation groupoid can be embedded into a medial quasigroup. In this note we prove the dual assertion, that every medial division groupoid is a homomorphic image of a medial quasigroup.

An AG-groupoid is a non-associative algebraic structure mid way between a groupoid and a commutative semigroup. The left identity in an AGgroupoid if exists is unique [9]. An AG-groupoid is non-associative and non-commutative algebraic structure, nevertheless, it posses many interesting properties which we usually find in associative and commutative algebraic structures. An AG-groupoid with rig...

The twisted Drinfeld double (or quasi-quantum double) of a finite group with a 3-cocycle is identified with a certain twisted groupoid algebra. The groupoid is the loop (or inertia) groupoid of the original group and the twisting is shown geometrically to be the loop transgression of the 3-cocycle. The twisted representation theory of finite groupoids is developed and used to derive properties ...

Tarski associative groupoid (TA-groupoid) is a kind of non-associative satisfying law. In this paper, the new notions transposition regular TA-groupoid are proposed and their properties structural characteristics studied by using band quasi-separativity. particular, following conclusions strictly proved: (1) every left semigroup; (2) disjoint union sub Abelian groups; (3) finite with quasi-sepa...

We describe a special class of representations of an inverse semigroup S on Hilbert's space which we term tight. These representations are supported on a subset of the spectrum of the idempotent semilattice of S, called the tight spectrum, which is in turn shown to be precisely the closure of the space of ultra-filters, once filters are identified with semicharacters in a natural way. These rep...

In ([L2]), Franck Lesieur had introduced a notion of measured quantum groupoid, in the setting of von Neumann algebras. In an annex of [E6], Lesieur’s axioms have been simplified. In this article, we suppose that the basis is central; in that case, we prove that a specific sub-C∗ algebra is, in a sense, invariant under all the data which define the measured quantum group, which allow us to prov...