Discrete Morse theory and graph braid groups.
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Publication:2571377
DOI10.2140/AGT.2005.5.1075zbMATH Open1134.20050arXivmath/0410539OpenAlexW3103666347WikidataQ60306559 ScholiaQ60306559MaRDI QIDQ2571377FDOQ2571377
Authors: Daniel Farley, Lucas Sabalka 
Publication date: 1 November 2005
Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: If Gamma is any finite graph, then the unlabelled configuration space of n points on Gamma, denoted UC^n(Gamma), is the space of n-element subsets of Gamma. The braid group of Gamma on n strands is the fundamental group of UC^n(Gamma). We apply a discrete version of Morse theory to these UC^n(Gamma), for any n and any Gamma, and provide a clear description of the critical cells in every case. As a result, we can calculate a presentation for the braid group of any tree, for any number of strands. We also give a simple proof of a theorem due to Ghrist: the space UC^n(Gamma) strong deformation retracts onto a CW complex of dimension at most k, where k is the number of vertices in Gamma of degree at least 3 (and k is thus independent of n).
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410539
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General topology of complexes (57Q05) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)
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