Presentations of graph braid groups

DOI10.1515/form.2011.086zbMath1262.20041arXiv0907.2730MaRDI QIDQ2905097

Lucas Sabalka, Daniel Scott Farley

Publication date: 24 August 2012

Published in: Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.2730

zbMATH Keywords

presentations; configuration spaces; fundamental groups; discrete Morse theory; graph braid groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

20F65: Geometric group theory

20F36: Braid groups; Artin groups

57M07: Topological methods in group theory

55R80: Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology

57M15: Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory

57M05: Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus

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