On Cohen braids.

DOI10.1134/S0081543814060029MaRDI QIDQ2514580zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Valeriy G. Bardakov, Jie Wu, Vladimir Vershinin

Publication date 3 February 2015

Published in Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2924

zbMATH Keywords

Brunnian braidsCohen braidsCohen groupsgeneratorsremovals of strandssurface braid groupssystems of equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Algebraic geometry over groups; equations over groups (20F70) Homotopy groups of spheres (55Q40) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: For a general surface $M$ and an arbitrary braid $alpha$ from the surface braid group $B_{n-1}(M)$ we study the system of equations $$ where operation $d_i$ is deleting of $i$-th strand. We obtain that if $Mot=S^2$ or $mathbbR{P}^2$ this system of equations has a solution $$ if and only if $d_{1}alpha=ldots=d_{n}alpha.$ The set of braids satisfying the last system of equations we call Cohen braids. We also construct a set of generators for the groups of Cohen braids. In the cases of the sphere and the projective plane we give some examples for the small number of strands.

Review text

Brunnian braids have been studied since long time ago. The paper under review defines and studies a family of braids called Cohen braids. They are a natural generalization of the Brunnian braids and are in the same spirit as the Cohen groups. Without being precise a braid on \(n\) strands is called a Cohen braid if the braids obtained after removal of one strand, for every strand, they are all the same braid \(\alpha\) (not necessarily trivial) on \(n-1\) strands. It is not clear for which values of \(\alpha\) the system of equations admits a solution. The main result of the paper is: Theorem 1.1. Let \(M\) be any connected 2-manifold such that \(M\neq S^2\) and \(M\neq RP^2\), and let \(\alpha\in B_{n-1}(M)\). Then the system of equations \(d_1(\beta)=\cdots=d_n(\beta)=\alpha\) for \(n\)-strand braids \(\beta\) has a solution if and only if \(\alpha\) satisfies the condition \(d_1(\alpha)=\cdots=d_{n-1}(\alpha)\). The authors also describe a set of generators for the Cohen group on \(n\)-strands of the disk. Then calculation of the Cohen braids on \(n\)-strands, for small value of \(n\) is provided in the case when the surface is \(S^2\) and it is \(RP^2\). Finally at the end a generalization of the Cohen braids is defined and some open questions are presented.

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