GEOMETRIC PRESENTATIONS FOR THE PURE BRAID GROUP

DOI10.1142/S0218216509006859MaRDI QIDQ3608719zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Dan Margalit, Jon McCammond

Publication date 5 March 2009

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0603204

zbMATH Keywords

relationsmapping class groupspure braid groupspresentationsDehn twists

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We give several new positive finite presentations for the pure braid group that are easy to remember and simple in form. All of our presentations involve a metric on the punctured disc so that the punctures are arranged "convexly", which is why we describe them as geometric presentaitons. Motivated by a presentation for the full braid group that we call the "rotation presentation", we introduce presentations for the pure braid group that we call the "twist presentation" and the "swing presentation". From the point of view of mapping class groups, the swing presentation can be interpreted as stating that the pure braid group is generated by a finite number of Dehn twists and that the only relations needed are the disjointness relation and the lantern relation.

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