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We prove that any homogeneous local representation \(\varphi :B_n \rightarrow GL_n(\mathbb {C})\) of type 1 or 2 of dimension \(n\ge 6\) is reducible. Then, we prove that any representation \(\varphi :B_n \rightarrow GL_n(\mathbb {C})\) of type 3 is equivalent to a complex specialization of the standard representation \(\tau _n\). Also, we study the irreducibility of all local linear representations of the braid group \(B_3\) of degree 3. We prove that any local representation of type 1 of \(B_3\) is reducible to a Burau type representation and that any local representation of type 2 of \(B_3\) is equivalent to a complex specialization of the standard representation. Moreover, we construct a representation of \(B_3\) of degree 6 using the tensor product of local representations of type 2. Let \(u_i\), \(i=1,2\), be non-zero complex numbers on the unit circle. We determine a necessary and sufficient condition that guarantees the irreducibility of the obtained representation.
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1 Introduction
The braid group \(B_n\) is represented, due to Artin, in the group Aut(\(F_n\)) of automorphisms of the free group \(F_n\) generated by \(x_1, \ldots , x_n\). To attack the linearity of the braid group \(B_n\), the faithfulness of the braid group representations was studied. One of these represenations is the Burau representation which was, for a long time, a candidate to answer the question of faithfulness of the braid group \(B_n\). It was proved that the Burau representation is faithful for \(n\le 3\) and not faithful for \(n\ge 5\). For \(n=4\), the question of faithfulness of the Burau representation has not been answered yet. For more details, see [2] and [3].
In addition to the linearity of the braid group \(B_n\), the classification of irreducible complex representations of \(B_n\) was of great concern. In [4], Formanek found a necessary and sufficient condition for the specialization of the reduced Burau representation to be irreducible. Moreover, Formanek classified all irreducible complex representations of the braid group \(B_n\) of degree at most \(n-1\) for \(n\ge 7\). In [7], Sysoeva extended this classification to representations of degree n for \(n\ge 9\). For \(n=5, 6, 7\) and 8, the classification was completed by Formanek, Lee, Sysoeva and Vazirani. For more details, see [5]. For \(n \ge 10\), Sysoeva proved, in [8], that there are no irreducible representations of \(B_n\) of dimension \(n+1\).
The local representations of the braid group \(B_3\) were studied by Mikhalchishina who proved that any local representation of the braid group \(B_3\) into \(GL_3(\mathbb {C})\) is of type 1 or 2. In addition, Mikhalchishina studied the n-dimensional homogeneous local representations \(\varphi \) of the braid group \(B_n\) and proved that \(\varphi \) coincides with one of the three representations \(\varphi _1\), \(\varphi _2\) and \(\varphi _3\) which were defined. For more details, see [6].
In our work, first we study the irreducibility of the local homogeneous multi-parameter representations of types 1 and 2 of degree n of the braid group \(B_n\). We prove that, for \(n\ge 6\), any homogeneous local representation of type 1 or 2 is reducible.
Next, we consider the case of homogeneous local representations of type 3 of degree n of the braid group \(B_n\). We prove that any homogeneous local representation of type 3 is equivalent to a complex specialization of the standard representation. Consequently, any multi-parameter homogeneous local representation of type 3 is irreducible if and only if \(bc\ne 1\).
Then, we study the irreducibility of all local representations of the braid group \(B_3\). We prove that any three-dimensional local representation of type 1 is reducible to a representation of Burau type. Also, we prove that any three-dimensional local representation of type 2 is equivalent to a complex specialization of the standard representation. Due to this equivalence, any local representation of type 2 is irrreducible if and only if \(bc\ne 1\).
Finally, we find the tensor product of two complex specializations of the standard representations of \(B_3\). We prove that the obtained nine-dimensional multi-parameter representation is a direct sum of a complex specialization of the standard representation and a six-dimensional representation \(\varphi \). We consider the case when the complex numbers \(u_i's\) are on the unit circle. Then, we prove that \(\varphi \) is irreducible if and only if \(\sqrt{u_1} \ne \pm \sqrt{u_2}\).
2 Preliminaries
Definition 2.1
[1] The braid group, \(B_n\), is an abstract group generated by \(\sigma _1, \sigma _2, \ldots , \sigma _{n-1}\) with the following relations
and
Definition 2.2
[7, Definition 2] The corank of the representation \(\rho : B_n\rightarrow GL_r(\mathbb {C})\) is \(rank(\rho (\sigma _i)-1)\), where the \(\sigma _i\) are the standard generators of the group \(B_n\).
Definition 2.3
[6] A representation \(\varphi : B_n \longrightarrow GL_n(\mathbb {C})\) is called local if
where \(I_m\) is the identity matrix of order m and \(R_i\) is a matrix of order 2. A local representation is called homogeneous if \(R_1=R_2=\cdots =R_{n-1}\).
Theorem 2.4
[6, Theorem 1] If \(\varphi : B_3 \rightarrow GL_3(\mathbb {C})\) is a local representation then \(\varphi \) has one of the two types:
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(1)
\(\varphi (\sigma _1) = \left( \begin{array}{cc|cc} \alpha (1-d) &{} \frac{(1-d)(1-\alpha +d\alpha )}{c} &{} 0 \\ c &{} d &{} 0 \\ \hline 0 &{} 0 &{} 1 \\ \end{array} \right) \), \(\varphi (\sigma _2) = \left( \begin{array}{c|cc} 1 &{} 0 &{} 0 \\ \hline 0 &{} \alpha &{} \frac{(1-\alpha )(1-d +d\alpha )}{\gamma } \\ 0 &{} \gamma &{} d(1-\alpha ) \\ \end{array} \right) \),
where \(d, \alpha \ne 1\) and \(c, \gamma \ne 0\);
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(2)
\(\varphi (\sigma _1) = \left( \begin{array}{cc|cc} 0 &{} b &{} 0 \\ c &{} 0 &{} 0 \\ \hline 0 &{} 0 &{} 1 \\ \end{array} \right) \), \(\varphi (\sigma _2) = \left( \begin{array}{c|cc} 1 &{} 0 &{} 0 \\ \hline 0 &{} 0 &{} \frac{bc}{\gamma } \\ 0 &{} \gamma &{} 0 \\ \end{array} \right) \), where \(bc, \gamma \ne 0\).
Corollary 2.5
[6, Corollary to Theorem 1] If \(\varphi : B_n \longrightarrow GL_n(\mathbb {C})\), \(n\ge 3\), is a homogeneous local representation, then \(\varphi \) coincides with one of the representations \(\varphi _1\), \(\varphi _2\) and \(\varphi _3\) defined as follows:
Definition 2.6
[7, Definition 6] The standard representation is the representation
defined by
for \(i=1,2, \ldots , n-1\), where \(I_k\) is the \(k \times k\) identity matrix.
Definition 2.7
[7] The complex specialization of the standard representation is defined by
for \(i=1,2,\ldots , n-1\), where \(I_k\) is the \(k \times k\) identity matrix, and u \(\in \mathbb {C}^*\).
Lemma 2.8
[7, Lemma 5.3] If \(u=1\), then \(\tau _n(u)\) is reducible.
Lemma 2.9
[7, Lemma 5.4] If \(u\ne 1\), then \(\tau _n(u)\) is irreducible.
Theorem 2.10
[7, Theorem 5.5] Let \(\rho : B_n:\rightarrow GL_r(\mathbb {C})\) be an irreducible representation of \(B_n\) for \(n\ge 6\). Let \(r\ge n\), and let \(\rho (\sigma _1)=1+A_1\) with \(rank(A_1)=2\). Then \(r=n\) and \(\rho \) is equivalent to the representation \(\tau _n(u)\), where u \(\in \mathbb {C}^*\) and \(u \ne 1\).
Definition 2.11
[4] The complex specialization of the reduced Burau representation \(\beta _3(z)\) is defined by:
Theorem 2.12
[4, Theorem 11] Let \(\rho :B_3 \rightarrow GL_2(\mathbb {C})\) be an irreducible representation. Then \(\rho \) is equivalent to \(\chi (y)\otimes \beta _3(z)\) for some \(y, z \in \mathbb {C}^*\), where z is not a root of the polynomial \(t^2+t+1\). Here \(\chi (y)\) is the one dimentional representation and \(\beta _3(z)\) is the reduced Burau representation. We say that \(\rho \) is of Burau type.
Definition 2.13
The principal square root function is the function defined as follows: For all \(z\in \mathbb {C}, z=(\rho , \alpha ), \rho \ge 0\). \(\sqrt{z}=\sqrt{\rho }e^{i\frac{\alpha }{2}}\), where \(-\pi <\alpha \le \pi .\)
3 Irreduciblility of homogeneous local representations of \(B_n\) for \(n\ge 6\)
Mikhalchishina proved, in [6, Proposition, p. 672], that type 1 and type 2 representations are not equivalent when \(d\ne \alpha \). In this section, we prove that any homogeneous local representation of type 1 or 2 of dimension \(n\ge 6\) is reducible. Then, we prove that any homogeneous local representation of type 3 is equivalent to a complex specialization of the standard representation \(\tau _n\).
Theorem 3.1
The homogeneous local representations of types 1 and 2 are reducible for \(n\ge 6\).
Proof
Let \(\varphi _1\) and \(\varphi _2\) be two homogeneous local representations of \(B_n\) of types 1 and 2 respectiveley with \(n\ge 6\). Consider the matrices \(P_1\) and \(P_2\) defined as
where \(Diag(a_1, a_2, \ldots , a_n)\) is a diagonal \(n\times n\) matrix, with \(a_{ii}=a_i\).
By direct computations, we get
where,
and
for \(i=1, 2, \ldots , n-1\).
This implies that the representations \(\varphi _1\) and \(\varphi _2\) are equivalent to the representations \(\tilde{\varphi _1}\) and \(\tilde{\varphi _2}\) respectively. Thus, we can verify that the corank of the representations \(\varphi _1\) and \(\varphi _2\) is 1. This implies that the representations \(\varphi _1\) and \(\varphi _2\) are reducible. (See [4], Theorem 10) \(\square \)
Now, we prove that any representation \(\varphi _3:B_n \rightarrow GL_n(\mathbb {C})\) of type 3 is equivalent to a complex specialization of the standard representation \(\tau _n\).
Theorem 3.2
Let \(\varphi _3:B_n \rightarrow GL_n(\mathbb {C})\) be a homogeneous local representation of type 3. Then, the representation \(\varphi _3\) is equivalent to a complex specialization the standard representation \(\tau _n\).
Proof
Let \(\varphi _3:B_n \rightarrow GL_n(\mathbb {C})\) be a homogeneous local representation of type 3. Consider the matrix \(P\) defined by
where \(Diag(a_1, a_2, \ldots , a_n)\) is a diagonal \(n\times n\) matrix with \(a_{ii}=a_i\).
Direct computations show that
By letting \(u=bc\), we find that this representation is equivalent to a complex specialization of the standard representation \(\tau _n\).
By Lemmas 2.8 and 2.9, the standard representation is irreducible if and only if \(u\ne 1\). This implies that \(\varphi _3 \) is irreducible if and only if \(bc\ne 1\). \(\square \)
Thus, we state the following theorem:
Theorem 3.3
Let \(\varphi _3:B_n \rightarrow GL_n(\mathbb {C})\) be a homogeneous local representation of type 3. Then, the representation \(\varphi _3\) is irreducible if and only if \(bc\ne 1\).
4 Irreducibility of local representations of \(B_3\)
In this section, we consider all the local representations of \(B_3\). We prove that any local representation of type 1 of \(B_3\) is reducible to a Burau type representation. Then, we prove that any local representation of type 2 of \(B_3\) is equivalent to a complex specialization of the standard representation.
Theorem 4.1
Let \(\varphi : B_3 \rightarrow GL_3(\mathbb {C})\) be a local representation of type 1. Then, \(\varphi \) is reducible to a representation of Burau type.
Proof
Let \(\varphi : B_3 \rightarrow GL_3(\mathbb {C})\) be a representation of type 1, then
where \(d, \alpha \ne 1\) and \(c, \gamma \ne 0\).
We scale the basis using the matrix
Thus, we get
and
We have the following two cases:
Case 1. \(\alpha (1-d)=1\). In this case, we have
It is clear that the proper subspace \(S=<e_2, e_3>\) is invariant. Consequently, the above representation \(\varphi \) is reducible.
Restricting \(\varphi \) to \(S\), we obtain:
This formula is well defined since \(d-1\ne 0\).
By direct computations, there is no proper invariant subspace of dimension one if \(d \ne 0\) and \(d^2-d+1 \ne 0\).
Therefore, the representation \(\varphi '\) is irreducible. Consequently, it is a representation of Burau type.
Since the representation \(\varphi '\) is of Burau type, thus, by Theorem 3, it is equivalent to \(\chi (y)\otimes \beta _3(z)\) for some \(y, z \in \mathbb {C}^*\). This implies that \(\varphi '\) and \(\chi (y)\otimes \beta _3(z)\) have the same eigenvalues which are \((1, d)\) and \((y, -yz)\) respectively. Thus, these representations are equivalent for
On the other hand, if \(d^2-d+1=0\), then the subspace \(<(0, 1)>\) is invariant. This implies that the representation is reduced to a one dimensional representation.
Case 2. \(\alpha (1-d)\ne 1\).
Consider the subspace \(S=<u, v>\) where
By direct computations, we have
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\(\varphi (\sigma _1)(u)=(-1+\alpha +d-\alpha d)u\),
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\(\varphi (\sigma _1)(v)=-u+v\),
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\(\varphi (\sigma _2)(u)=v\) and
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\(\varphi (\sigma _2)(v)=(-1-\alpha -d+\alpha d)u+(\alpha +d-\alpha d)v\).
Thus, the proper subspace S is invariant. Therefore, the representation \(\varphi \) is reducible.
By restricting \(\varphi \) to \(S\), we obtain the representation \(\varphi '\) defined as follows:
Let \(t=-1+\alpha +d-\alpha d\). The representation \(\varphi '\) is reducible if and only if the matrices \(\varphi '(\sigma _1) \) and \(\varphi '(\sigma _2) \) have a common eigenvector. Direct computations show that the representation \(\varphi '\) is irreducible if and only if \(t^3\ne \pm 1\).
Therefore, any representation of type 1 is reduced to a Burau type representation (See Theorem 2.12).
Also, the representation \(\varphi '\) is of Burau type, thus, by Theorem 3, it is equivalent to \(\chi (y)\otimes \beta _3(z)\) for some \(y, z \in \mathbb {C}^*\). Using the same argument of case 1, these representations are equivalent for:
\(\square \)
Proposition 4.2
Let \(\varphi : B_3 \rightarrow GL_3(\mathbb {C})\) be a local representation of type 2 of \(B_3\), then \(\varphi \) is equivalent to a complex specialization of the standard representation.
Proof
Let \(\varphi : B_3 \rightarrow GL_3(\mathbb {C})\) be a local representation of type 2 of \(B_3\). We scale the basis using the matrix
Thus, we get
By letting \(u=bc\), we notice that the representation \(\varphi \) is equivalent to a complex specialization of the standard representation. \(\square \)
Now, we state the following theorem:
Theorem 4.3
Let \(\varphi : B_3 \rightarrow GL_3(\mathbb {C})\) be a local representation of type 2 of \(B_3\), then \(\varphi \) is irreducible if and only if \(bc \ne 1\).
5 Representations of dimension 6 of \(B_3\)
In this section, we study the irreducibility of the tensor product of two irreducible local representations of type 2 of \(B_3\).
Consider two irreducible local representations \(\rho _1=\varphi (b_1, c_1, \gamma _1)\) and \(\rho _2=\varphi (b_2, c_2, \gamma _2)\) of type 2 of the braid group \(B_3\).
These representations are defined as:
and
where \(b_1c_1\ne 0, b_2c_2\ne 0, \gamma _1\ne 0\) and \(\gamma _2\ne 0\).
By Proposition 4.2, the representations \(\rho _1\) and \(\rho _2\) are equivalent to the standard representations \(\tau _1\) and \(\tau _2\) defined by:
and
where \(u_1=b_1c_1\), \(u_2=b_2c_2\), \(u_1\ne 1\) and \(u_2\ne 1\).
Definition 5.1
Consider the tensor product \(\tau _1\otimes \tau _2\) defined by \((\tau _1\otimes \tau _2)(\sigma _i)=\tau _1(\sigma _i)\otimes \tau _2(\sigma _i), i=1, 2\). We get the following matrices:
and
For simplicity, we denote \((\tau _1\otimes \tau _2)\) by \(\rho \).
We now show that the representation \(\rho \) is reducible.
Proposition 5.2
The representation \(\rho \) is reducible.
Proof
By choosing a different basis for \(\mathbb {C}^9\), namely \(\{e_1, e_5, e_9, e_2, e_3, e_4, e_6, e_7, e_8\}\), the representation \(\rho \) is equivalent to the representation \(\psi \) whose matrices are given by:
and
It is clear from the form of the martices of the generators \(\sigma _1\) and \(\sigma _2\) that the representation \(\psi \) is a direct sum of a standard representation and a representation \(\varphi \) of dimension 6. \(\square \)
Definition 5.3
We define the representation \(\varphi : B_3 \rightarrow GL_6(\mathbb {C})\) of \(B_3\) of dimension 6 by:
and
We diagonalize the matrix corresponding to \(\varphi (\sigma _1)\) by an invertible matrix, say T, and conjugate the matrix \(\varphi (\sigma _2)\) by the same matrix T.
The invertible matrix T is given by
In fact, computations show that
After conjugation, we get
For simplicity, we denote \(T^{-1}\sigma _1T\) by \(\sigma _1\) and \(T^{-1}\sigma _2T\) by \(\sigma _2\).
Assume that \(u_i\), \(i=1,2\), are non-zero complex numbers on the unit circle. We determine a sufficient condition for the irreducibility of the representation \(\varphi \) of \(B_3\) of dimension 6.
Lemma 5.4
Let \(u_i\), \(i=1,2\), be non-zero complex numbers on the unit circle. The representation \(\varphi :B_3 \rightarrow GL_6(\mathbb {C})\) is irreducible if \(\sqrt{u_1} \ne \pm \sqrt{u_2}\).
Proof
Direct computations show that \(\sigma _i \sigma _i^*=I_6\), where \(i=1,2\), * denotes the complex conjugate transpose, and \(I_6\) denotes the \(6 \times 6\) identity matrix.
Therefore, the representation is unitary. Consequently, if S is an invariant subspace then the orthogonal complement of S is also invariant.
Thus, it is sufficient to prove that there is no possible proper invariant subspace of dimensions 1,2,3.
Since the representations \(\rho _1\) and \(\rho _2\) are irreducible, then \(u_1\ne 1\) and \(u_2\ne 1\) (Lemmas 1 and 2). This implies that \(\sqrt{u_1}\sqrt{u_2}\ne \pm \sqrt{u_1}\) and \(\sqrt{u_1}\sqrt{u_2}\ne \pm \sqrt{u_2}\).
Let S be an invariant subspace of dimension \(\le 3\).
We have the following cases:
Case 1. \(S=<e_i>\), \(i=1,...,6\).
Case 2. \(S=<e_i, e_j>\), \(i,j=1,...,6\), \(i \ne j\).
Case 3. \(S=<e_i, e_j, e_k>\), \(i,j,k=1,...,6\), \(i \ne j \ne k\).
In all the above cases, it is clear that \(e_i \in S\) for some \(1 \le i \le 6\).
As S is invariant, this implies that \(\sigma _2(e_i) \in S\).
On the other hand, by direct computations, we have the following:
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\(\sigma _2(e_1)= \frac{u_2}{2} (e_3+e_4) + \frac{u_2\sqrt{u_2}}{2}(e_5-e_6)\)
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\(\sigma _2(e_2)=\frac{u_2}{2} (e_3+e_4) + \frac{u_2\sqrt{u_2}}{2}(-e_5+e_6)\)
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\(\sigma _2(e_3)=\frac{u_1}{2} (e_1+e_2) - \frac{u_1\sqrt{u_2}}{2}(e_5+e_6)\)
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\(\sigma _2(e_4)=\frac{u_1}{2} (e_1+e_2) + \frac{u_1\sqrt{u_2}}{2}(e_5+e_6)\)
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\(\sigma _2(e_5)=\frac{1}{2\sqrt{u_2}} (e_1-e_2-e_3+e_4)\)
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\(\sigma _2(e_6)=\frac{1}{2\sqrt{u_2}} (-e_1+e_2 -e_3+e_4)\)
In all the above cases, \(\sigma _2(e_i) \notin S\) for all \(1 \le i \le 6\). This gives a contradiction.
Therefore, there is no possible invariant subspace of dimension \(\le 3\).
Thus, the representation \(\varphi : B_3 \rightarrow GL_6(\mathbb {C})\) is irreducible if \(\sqrt{u_1} \ne \pm \sqrt{u_2}\). \(\square \)
Now, we determine a necessary condition for irreducibility of the representation \(\varphi : B_3 \rightarrow GL_6(\mathbb {C})\).
Lemma 5.5
Let \(u_i\), \(i=1,2\), be non-zero complex numbers on the unit circle. If \(\sqrt{u_1} = \pm \sqrt{u_2} \), then the representation \(\varphi : B_3 \rightarrow GL_6(\mathbb {C})\) is reducible.
Proof
We consider the following cases:
Case 1: \(\sqrt{u_1} = \sqrt{u_2} \).
Let \(S=\) \(<e_5,u,v>\) where \(u=e_1-e_3\) and \(v= e_2-e_4\).
Direct computations show that:
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\(\sigma _1(e_5)=-u_1e_5\)
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\(\sigma _2(e_5)=\frac{1}{2\sqrt{u_1}}(u - v)\)
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\(\sigma _1(u)=-\sqrt{u_1}u\)
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\(\sigma _2(u)=-\frac{u_1}{2}u-\frac{u_1}{2}v+u_1\sqrt{u_1}e_5 \)
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\(\sigma _1(v)=\sqrt{u_1}v\)
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\(\sigma _2(v)=-\frac{u_1}{2}u-\frac{u_1}{2}v-u_1\sqrt{u_1}e_5 \)
Thus, the subspace S is invariant.
Case 2: \(\sqrt{u_1} = - \sqrt{u_2}\)
Let \(S=\) \(<e_5,u,v>\) where \(u=e_1+e_4\) and \(v= e_2+e_3\).
Direct computations show that:
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\(\sigma _1(e_5)=u_1e_5\)
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\(\sigma _2(e_5)=-\frac{1}{2\sqrt{u_1}}(u - v)\)
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\(\sigma _1(u)=-\sqrt{u_1}u\)
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\(\sigma _2(u)=\frac{u_1}{2}u+\frac{u_1}{2}v-u_1\sqrt{u_1}e_5 \)
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\(\sigma _1(v)=\sqrt{u_1}v\)
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\(\sigma _2(v)=\frac{u_1}{2}u+\frac{u_1}{2}v+u_1\sqrt{u_1}e_5 \)
Thus, the subspace S is invariant.
Therefore, the representation \(\varphi : B_3 \rightarrow GL_6(\mathbb {C})\) is reducible if \(\sqrt{u_1} = \pm \sqrt{u_2} \). \(\square \)
We state now the theorem of irreducibility of the considered representation.
Theorem 5.6
Let \(u_i\), \(i=1,2\), be non-zero complex numbers on the unit circle. The representation \(\varphi : B_3 \rightarrow GL_6(\mathbb {C})\) is irreducible if and only if \(\sqrt{u_1} \ne \pm \sqrt{u_2} \).
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Chreif, M.Y., Dally, M.M. On the irreducibility of local representations of the Braid group \(B_n\). Arab. J. Math. 13, 263–273 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40065-024-00461-4
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