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Ribbon $2$–knots,
$1+1=2$ and Duflo's theorem for arbitrary Lie algebras
Dror Bar-Natan, Zsuzsanna Dancso and Nancy Scherich |
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Algebraic & Geometric Topology 20 (2020) 3733–3760
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Abstract |
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We explain a direct topological proof for the multiplicativity of the Duflo isomorphism for arbitrary finite-dimensional Lie algebras, and derive the explicit formula for the Duflo map. The proof follows a series of implications, starting with “the calculation on a 4D abacus”, using the study of homomorphic expansions (aka universal finite-type invariants) for ribbon –knots, and the relationship between the corresponding associated graded space of arrow diagrams and universal enveloping algebras. This complements the results of the first author, Le and Thurston, where similar arguments using a “3D abacus” and the Kontsevich integral were used to deduce Duflo’s theorem for metrized Lie algebras; and results of the first two authors on finite-type invariants of w–knotted objects, which also imply a relation of –knots with the Duflo theorem in full generality, though via a lengthier path. |
Keywords
knots, 2-knots, tangles, expansions, finite type
invariants, Lie algebras, Duflo’s theorem
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Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 57M25
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References |
Publication
Received: 15 October 2019
Revised: 10 March 2020
Accepted: 26 March 2020
Published: 29 December 2020
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Authors |
| Dror Bar-Natan | |
| Department of Mathematics University of Toronto Toronto, ON Canada |
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| http://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn | |
| Zsuzsanna Dancso | |
| School of Mathematics and
Statistics The University of Sydney Camperdown NSW Australia |
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| http://www.zsuzsannadancso.net | |
| Nancy Scherich | |
| Department of Mathematics and
Statistics Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC United States |
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| http://www.nancyscherich.com | |
