Properties of Hurwitz equivalence in the braid group of order \(n\). (Q1398139)

Let \(B_n\) be the Artin braid group with \(n\) strings, and let \(\Delta_n^2\) be the `positive' generator of the center of \(B_n\). In this paper, it is proved that any two expressions of \(\Delta_n^2\) as products of \(n(n-1)\) letters from the standard type generators of \(B_n\) are Hurwitz equivalent, i.e., can be deformed into each other by compositions of moves \((t_i)\mapsto(s_i)\), such that \(\Delta_n^2=\prod_{i=1}^{n(n-1)}t_i=\prod_{i=1}^{n(n-1)}s_i\), of the special form \(s_k=t_kt_{k+1}t_k^{-1}\), \(s_{k+1}=t_k\) and \(s_i=t_i\) for \(i\not\in\{k,k+1\}\) (\(1\leq k<n(n-1)\)).