# Associators with Frozen Feet

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## The Goal

The purpose of the paperlet is to find an explicit formula for an associator with frozen feet. As I'm starting to write, I don't know such a formula. My hope is that as I type up all the relevant equations, a solution will emerge. I'll be just as happy if it emerges in somebody else's mind, provided (s)he shares her/his thoughts.

An associator is a solution $\Phi\in A_3$ of the pentagon equation and the hexagon equations (, , ):

 [Pentagon]
$\Phi^{123}\cdot(1\otimes\Delta\otimes 1)(\Phi)\cdot\Phi^{234}=(\Delta\otimes 1\otimes 1)(\Phi)\cdot(1\otimes 1\otimes\Delta)(\Phi)\quad\mbox{in}\quad A_4$,

 [Hexagons]
$(\Delta\otimes 1)(R^{\pm}) = \Phi^{123}\cdot (R^{\pm})^{23}\cdot(\Phi^{-1})^{132}\cdot(R^{\pm})^{13}\cdot\Phi^{312}\quad\mbox{in}\quad A_3$.

## References

[Bar-Natan_97] ^  D. Bar-Natan, Non-associative tangles, in Geometric topology (proceedings of the Georgia international topology conference), (W. H. Kazez, ed.), 139-183, Amer. Math. Soc. and International Press, Providence, 1997.

[Drinfeld_90] ^  V. G. Drinfel'd, Quasi-Hopf algebras, Leningrad Math. J. 1 (1990) 1419-1457.

[Drinfeld_91] ^  V. G. Drinfel'd, On quasitriangular Quasi-Hopf algebras and a group closely connected with $\operatorname{Gal}(\bar{\mathbb Q}/{\mathbb Q})$, Leningrad Math. J. 2 (1991) 829-860.