Braid Groups and Left Distributive Operations

DOI10.2307/2154598zbMath0837.20048WikidataQ56533601 ScholiaQ56533601MaRDI QIDQ4310780

Patrick Dehornoy

Publication date: 21 April 1996

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2154598

zbMATH Keywords

identities; generators; word problem; linear orderings; structure groups; Artin's braid groups; braid colourings; free left distributive law; ordering on the braids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F36: Braid groups; Artin groups

06A05: Total orders

20N02: Sets with a single binary operation (groupoids)

17A30: Nonassociative algebras satisfying other identities

17A50: Free nonassociative algebras

08A50: Word problems (aspects of algebraic structures)

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