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

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Authors D. B. McReynolds

Publication date 25 October 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.4663, http://www.emis.de/journals/NYJM/j/2012/18-47.html

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zbMATH Keywords

congruence subgroup problemcongruence subgroup propertyprincipal congruence subgroupspure braid groupspure mapping class groupssubgroups of finite index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: In this article we present an unpublished proof of W. Thurston that pure braid groups have the congruence subgroup property.

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• The level four braid group
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