On the classification of CAT(0) structures for the 4-string braid group.

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1114021090zbMath1135.20030OpenAlexW2022542743MaRDI QIDQ558705

Luisa Paoluzzi, John Crisp

Publication date: 13 July 2005

Published in: Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1307/mmj/1114021090

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupsCAT(0)-groupsBrady complexesgeometric CAT(0)-actionsproperly discontinuous co-compact isometric actions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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The 4-string braid group $B_4$ has property RD and exponential mesoscopic rank ⋮ Surgery on \(\mathrm{Aut}(F_2)\) ⋮ The automorphism group of the free group of rank 2 is a \(\text{CAT}(0)\) group. ⋮ \(\operatorname{Aut}(F_2)\) puzzles ⋮ Braid groups and the co-Hopfian property.

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