Affine configurations and pure braids

DOI10.1007/S00454-008-9069-7MaRDI QIDQ1006399zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pablo Suárez-Serrato

Publication date 24 March 2009

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601476

zbMATH Keywords

Affine configurationsMapping class groupsPure braids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: We show that the fundamental group of the space of ordered affine-equivalent configurations of at least five points in the real plane is isomorphic to the pure braid group modulo its centre. In the case of four points this fundamental group is free with eleven generators.

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