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

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1114021090MaRDI QIDQ558705zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Crisp, Luisa Paoluzzi

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) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Recommendations

• The 6-strand braid group is \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\).
• Braids, posets and orthoschemes
• The automorphism group of the free group of rank 2 is a \(\text{CAT}(0)\) group.
• The seven-strand braid group is \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\)
• The Deligne complex for the four-strand braid group

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1385418 (Why is no real title available?)
• Artin groups of finite type with three generators
• Artin-Gruppen und Coxeter-Gruppen
• Braid groups and the co-Hopfian property.
• Length functions, curvature and the dimension of discrete groups
• On the Dimension of Product Spaces
• Parabolic isometries of CAT(0) spaces and CAT(0) dimensions.
• The Automorphism Groups of the Braid Groups
• Three-generator Artin groups of large type are biautomatic
• Two-dimensional Artin groups with CAT(0) dimension three.

Cited in

(8)

• The 4-string braid group \(B_4\) has property RD and exponential mesoscopic rank.
• A virtual geometric action of a braid group
• \(\operatorname{Aut}(F_2)\) puzzles
• The seven-strand braid group is \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\)
• The 6-strand braid group is \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\).
• Braid groups and the co-Hopfian property.
• Surgery on \(\mathrm{Aut}(F_2)\)
• The automorphism group of the free group of rank 2 is a \(\text{CAT}(0)\) group.

This page was built for publication: On the classification of CAT(0) structures for the 4-string braid group.

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q558705)