On the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev representations of mapping class groups
Authors:
Patrick M. Gilmer
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803
Abstract:
We consider a central extension of the mapping class group of a surface with a collection of framed colored points. The Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFTs associated to and induce linear representations of this group. We show that the denominators of matrices which describe these representations over a cyclotomic field can be restricted in many cases. In this way, we give a proof of the known result that if the surface is a torus with no colored points, the representations have finite image.