Brunnian subgroups of mapping class groups and braid groups

DOI10.1112/PLMS/PDS096MaRDI QIDQ2856119zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. J. Berrick, Jie Wu, E. Hanbury

Publication date 23 October 2013

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/plms/pds096

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupsBrunnian subgroupsDelta grouphigher homotopy groupmapping class groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Homotopy groups of spheres (55Q40) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05)

Review text

The authors continue their work exploring the relationship between Brunnian subgroups of mapping class groups and higher homotopy groups of spheres. They use previous work on a \(\Delta\)--structure on braid groups to obtain an explicit isomorphism between the higher homotopy groups of \(\Delta\)--groups of braid groups and the higher homotopy groups of the \(2\)--sphere. Furthermore, they obtain a short exact sequence relating the Brunnian subgroups of Riemann surfaces other than the sphere and \(\mathbb{RP}^2\) as the number of strands varies.

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