Ordering the braid groups

DOI10.2140/PJM.1999.191.49MaRDI QIDQ1568888zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bert Wiest, Roger Fenn, Michael T. Greene, Dale Rolfsen, Colin Rourke

Publication date 22 June 2000

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9809013

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmsnormal formsbraid groupsright orderable groupsDehornoy orderings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

Abstract: We give an explicit geometric argument that Artin's braid group $B_n$ is right-orderable. The construction is elementary, natural, and leads to a new, effectively computable, canonical form for braids which we call left-consistent canonical form. The left-consistent form of a braid which is positive (respectively negative) in our order has consistently positive (respectively negative) exponent in the smallest braid generator which occurs. It follows that our ordering is identical to that of Dehornoy, constructed by very different means, and we recover Dehornoy's main theorem that any braid can be put into such a form using either positive or negative exponent in the smallest generator but not both. Our definition of order is strongly connected with Mosher's normal form and this leads to an algorithm to decide whether a given braid is positive, trivial, or negative which is quadratic in the length of the braid word.

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