The congruence subgroup problem for pure braid groups: Thurston's proof.

zbMATH Open1331.20046arXiv0901.4663MaRDI QIDQ374041FDOQ374041

Authors: D. B. McReynolds 

Publication date: 25 October 2013

Published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article we present an unpublished proof of W. Thurston that pure braid groups have the congruence subgroup property.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.4663

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zbMATH Keywords

pure braid groupssubgroups of finite indexcongruence subgroup problemcongruence subgroup propertyprincipal congruence subgroupspure mapping class groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects) (20H05)

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• Book review of: A. Fathi et al., Thurston's work on surfaces
• The congruence subgroup problem for low rank free and free metabelian groups
• The congruence subgroup problem for the free metabelian group on \(n\geq 4\) generators

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