Quantization of Bending Deformations of Polygons In , Hypergeometric Integrals and the Gassner Representation

Abstract

AbstractThe Hamiltonian potentials of the bending deformations of n-gons instudied in [KM] and [Kly] give rise to a Hamiltonian action of the Malcev Lie algebra𝓟nof the pure braid groupPnon the moduli spaceMrofn-gon linkages with the side-lengthsr = (r1, … , rn)in. Ife∈Mris a singular point wemay linearize the vector fields in𝓟nate. This linearization yields a flat connection ∇ on the spaceof n distinct points on. We show that the monodromy of ∇ is the dual of a quotient of a specialized reduced Gassner representation.