The \(n\)th root of a braid is unique up to conjugacy.

DOI10.2140/agt.2003.3.1103zbMath1063.20041arXivmath/0306070OpenAlexW2952640629MaRDI QIDQ1880607

Juan González-Meneses

Publication date: 30 September 2004

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306070

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacybraid groupsNielsen-Thurston theoryunique roots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

Related Items

Garside groups are strongly translation discrete. ⋮ Translation by the full twist and Deligne-Lusztig varieties ⋮ Recognizing trace graphs of closed braids ⋮ Knot Floer homology, link Floer homology and link detection ⋮ Material coherence from trajectories via Burau eigenanalysis of braids ⋮ Periodic elements in Garside groups. ⋮ Automorphism group of the commutator subgroup of the braid group ⋮ Finite orbits of Hurwitz actions on braid systems. ⋮ DENSELY ORDERED BRAID SUBGROUPS ⋮ Conjugacy in Garside groups. III: Periodic braids. ⋮ Maximally writhed real algebraic links ⋮ CLASSIFICATION OF SYMMETRY GROUPS FOR PLANAR -BODY CHOREOGRAPHIES ⋮ Conjugacy in Garside groups. II: Structure of the ultra summit set. ⋮ Injectivity on the set of conjugacy classes of some monomorphisms between Artin groups. ⋮ Basic results on braid groups. ⋮ Braid groups of imprimitive complex reflection groups. ⋮ Uniqueness of roots up to conjugacy for some affine and finite type Artin groups. ⋮ A 1-parameter approach to links in a solid torus ⋮ Braids, their Properties and Generalizations ⋮ Unnamed Item ⋮ On the cycling operation in braid groups. ⋮ A new twist on Lorenz links ⋮ A New Approach to Extracting Roots in Garside Groups ⋮ Geometric approaches to braid groups and mapping class groups ⋮ A FAMILY OF PSEUDO-ANOSOV BRAIDS WITH LARGE CONJUGACY INVARIANT SETS ⋮ Categorified invariants and the braid group ⋮ On independence of some pseudocharacters on braid groups

Cites Work

• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Abelian and solvable subgroups of the mapping class group
• A new approach to the word and conjugacy problems in the braid groups
• Conjugacy problem for braid groups and Garside groups.
• Springer theory in braid groups and the Birman-Ko-Lee monoid.
• Computation of centralizers in braid groups and Garside groups.
• The theorem of Kerékjártó on periodic homeomorphisms of the disc and the sphere
• Theory of braids
• On the geometry and dynamics of diffeomorphisms of surfaces
• ALGORITHMS FOR POSITIVE BRAIDS
• EXTRACTION OF ROOTS IN GARSIDE GROUPS
• On the structure of the centralizer of a braid
• Sur les transformations périodiques de la surface de sphère
• THE BRAID GROUP AND OTHER GROUPS