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Barbu Berceanu

Publications and source records attributed to Barbu Berceanu.

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arXiv2018

Strong stability and shifted stability for the cohomology of configuration spaces

Homological stability for unordered configuration spaces of connected manifolds was discovered by Th. Church and extended by O. Randal-Williams and B. Knudsen: $H_i(C_k(M);\mathbb{Q})$ is constant for $k\geq f(i)$. We characterize the manifolds satisfying strong stability: $H^*(C_k(M);\mathbb{Q})$ is constant for $k\gg 0$. We give few examples of manifolds whose top Betti numbers are stable after a shift of degree.

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arXiv2017

On the geometry and topology of partial configuration spaces of Riemann surfaces

We examine complements (inside products of a smooth projective complex curve of arbitrary genus) of unions of diagonals indexed by the edges of an arbitrary simple graph. We use Gysin models associated to these quasi-projective manifolds to compute pairs of analytic germs at the origin, both for rank 1 and 2 representation varieties of their fundamental groups, and for degree 1 topological Green--Lazarsfeld loci. As a corollary, we describe all regular surjections with connected generic fiber, defined on the above complements onto smooth complex curves of negative Euler characteristic. We show that the nontrivial part at the origin, for both rank 2 representation varieties and their degree 1 jump loci, comes from curves of general type, via the above regular maps. We compute explicit finite presentations for the Malcev Lie algebras of the fundamental groups, and we analyze their formality properties.

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arXiv2013

Relative Garside elements of Artin monoids

We introduce a relative Garside element, the quotient of the corresponding Garside elements G1 and G2, for a pair of Artin monoids associated to Coxeter graphs Gamma1 and Gamma2, the second graph containing a new vertex. These relative elements give a recurrence relation between Garside elements. As an application, we compute explicitly the Garside elements of Artin monoids corresponding to spherical Coxeter graphs or the longest elements of the associated finite Coxeter groups.

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arXiv2012

Cohomology of 3-points configuration spaces of complex projective spaces

We compute the Betti numbers and describe the cohomology algebras of the ordered and unordered configuration spaces of three points in complex projective spaces, including the infinite dimensional case. We also compute these invariants for the configuration spaces of three collinear and non-collinear points.

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arXiv2012

Representation theory for the Kriz model

The natural action of the symmetric group on the configuration spaces F(X; n) induces an action on the Kriz model E(X; n). The represen- tation theory of this DGA is studied and a big acyclic subcomplex which is Sn-invariant is described.

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arXiv2011

Representation stability of power sets and square free polynomials

The symmetric group acts on the power set and also on the set of square free polynomials. These two related representations are analyzed from the stability point of view. An application is given for the action of the symmetric group on the cohomology of the pure braid group.

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arXiv2011

Fundamental Group of Desargues Configuration Spaces

We compute the fundamental group of various spaces of Desargues configurations in complex projective spaces: planar and non-planar configurations, with a fixed center and also with an arbitrary center.

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arXiv2010

What Could Be a Simple Permutation?

Different ways to describe a permutation, as a sequence of integers, or a product of Coxeter generators, or a tree, give different choices to define a simple permutation. We recollect few of them, define new types of simple permutations, and analyze their interconnections and some asymptotic and geometrical properties of these classes.

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arXiv2010

Fibonacci numbers and positive braids

The paper contains enumerative combinatorics for positive braids, square free braids, and simple braids, emphasizing connections with classical Fibonacci sequence. The simple subgraph of the Cayley graph of the braid group is analyzed in the final part.

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arXiv2010

Simple Braids

We study a subset of square free positive braids and we give a few algebraic characterizations of them and one geometric characterization: the set of positive braids whose closures are unlinks. We describe canonical forms of these braids and of their conjugacy classes.

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arXiv2010

Recurrence relation for HOMFLY polynomial and rational specializations

Turning the skein relation for HOMFLY into a Fibonacci recurrence, we prove that there are only three rational specializations of HOMFLY polynomial: Alexander-Conway, Jones, and a new one. Using the recurrence relation, we find general and relative expansion formulae and rational generating functions for Alexander-Conway polynomial and the new polynomial, which reduce the computations to closure of simple braids, a subset of square free braids; HOMFLY polynomials of these simple braids are also computed. Algebraic independence of these three polynomials is proved.

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arXiv2010

Recurrence relation for Jones polynomials

Using a simple recurrence relation we give a new method to compute Jones polynomials of closed braids: we find a general expansion formula and a rational generating function for Jones polynomials. The method is used to estimate degree of Jones polynomials for some families of braids and to obtain general qualitative results.

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arXiv2010

Braid groups in complex projective spaces

We describe the fundamental groups of ordered and unordered k point sets in complex projective space of dimension n generating a projective subspace of dimension i. We apply these to study connectivity of more complicated configurations of points.

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arXiv2009

Universal representations of braid and braid-permutation groups

Drinfel'd used associators to construct families of universal representations of braid groups. We consider semi-associators (i.e., we drop the pentagonal axiom and impose a normalization in degree one). We show that the process may be reversed, to obtain semi-associators from universal representations of 3-braids. We view braid groups as subgroups of braid-permutation groups. We construct a family of universal representations of braid-permutation groups, without using associators. All representations in the family are faithful, defined over $\bbQ$ by simple explicit formulae. We show that they give universal Vassiliev-type invariants for braid-permutation groups.

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arXiv2008

Universal Upper Bound for the Growth of Artin Monoids

In this paper we study the growth rates of Artin monoids and we show that 4 is a universal upper bound. We also show that the generating functions of the associated right-angled Artin monoids are given by families of Chebyshev polynomials. Applications to Artin groups and positive braids are given.

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arXiv2003

Multiplicative models for configuration spaces of algebraic varieties

W. Fulton and R. MacPherson described a Sullivan dg-algebra model for the space of n-configurations of labeled points in a smooth compact complex algebraic variety X. I. Kriz then gave a simpler model that depends only on the cohomology ring of X. We construct an even simpler and substantially smaller model for this configuration space. Using this smaller model, we also define another, new dg-algebra model, for the space of n-configurations in the variety X with a point removed. Following an idea of V.G. Drinfel'd, we endow the collection of these new "punctured" models with a simplicial bigraded differential algebra structure.

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