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The Khovanov-Seidel complexes give a weak derived braid action
Statement
Fix and let be the bounded homotopy category of finite graded projective left -modules. Choose a signed word representing each , with the empty word, and let be its complex from The complex of a braid word. Define and for . Then the assignment defines a weak action of the braid group (The braid group by Artin presentation) on in the sense of Weak action of a group on a category:
- exactly;
- every is an equivalence of , and
- for all the functors and are naturally isomorphic.
Explicitly, for any two words presenting the same element, a chosen finite sequence of defining relation moves gives an explicit homotopy equivalence between their complexes, so the action is well defined up to isomorphism by the presentation of . No independence of that chosen sequence is asserted. No coherence of the isomorphisms is claimed: the action is weak and is not asserted to be a genuine -action.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: An integer , the generators and defining relations of the presented braid group , the word complexes of The complex of a braid word and their functors on .
For every word the complex is a bounded complex of graded -bimodules with two-sided finite graded projective terms, and its action is an exact triangulated endofunctor of agreeing with the derived tensor product (The complex of a braid word).
for every (The generator complexes are mutually inverse).
is presented by the generators subject to the relations , for and ; consequently a group homomorphism or an assignment on words satisfying these relations up to the appropriate equivalences is well defined on the presented group, and any two words for the same element are related by a finite sequence of insertions and deletions of these relators (The braid group by Artin presentation, Group presentation by generators and relations, Von Dyck's theorem: maps of generators that satisfy the relators extend uniquely from a presented group).
The empty tensor product is the diagonal bimodule concentrated in degree , and naturally, so (The complex of a braid word, Signed totalization of graded A_m-bimodule actions).
Proof
Every is an equivalence. For , [L1] makes an endofunctor of , and the generator inverse relations of [L2], applied factor by factor with tensor associativity, identify its composites with the functor of the literal reversed inverse word as the identity; the empty-word functor is canonically the identity by [L6]. Thus is an equivalence with inverse the functor of that literal inverse word, up to the canonical unit identification. For the claim holds by the definition .
The defining relations hold up to natural isomorphism. The inverse-cancellation relation is [L2], far commutativity is [L3], and the three-term Artin relation is [L4]; for each of these the two functors are respectively naturally isomorphic, and the isomorphisms are compatible with concatenation of words because both sides are computed by the same balanced tensor product of the word complexes [L1].
Well-definedness on braid words. Let be a word and let be obtained from it by one of the elementary moves of [L5]: inserting or deleting , commuting two far-apart letters, or replacing by . Each move replaces by a naturally isomorphic functor by step 1.2, since the tensor product identifies the segments of the word and the isomorphisms compose; by induction on the number of moves, any two words presenting the same element of yield naturally isomorphic functors. Hence the assignment is well defined up to natural isomorphism on the presented group, with represented by the identity functor rather than merely by an isomorphic empty-word functor.
The weak-action axioms. By definition . If , concatenating their chosen words gives up to the natural isomorphism of step 2.1; tensoring with an input complex gives , using [L6] when . If one of is , the corresponding composite is identified with the other functor by the canonical tensor unit isomorphism (and is literally composition with on the functor side). Thus the weak-action unit and pairwise-isomorphism conditions hold. No compositors satisfying a pentagon are produced or claimed.
Conclusion. The functors define a weak action of on : the assignment is well defined up to natural isomorphism on words for the same braid (step 2.1), every value is an equivalence (step 1.1), and the identity functor is assigned exactly to with the pairwise isomorphisms supplied in step 3.1. No coherence upgrade is claimed.
Depends on
- Weak action of a group on a category
- The complex of a braid word
- The generator complexes are mutually inverse
- Far commutativity of the generator complexes
- The three-term braid relation
- Group presentation by generators and relations
- Von Dyck's theorem: maps of generators that satisfy the relators extend uniquely from a presented group
- The braid group by Artin presentation
- Signed totalization of graded A_m-bimodule actions
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