Affine configurations and pure braids

DOI10.1007/S00454-008-9069-7zbMATH Open1158.57021arXivmath/0601476OpenAlexW3104946654MaRDI QIDQ1006399FDOQ1006399

Authors: Pablo Suárez-Serrato 

Publication date: 24 March 2009

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

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.

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

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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)

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