New presentations of surface braid groups

DOI10.1142/S0218216501000949zbMATH Open1030.20024arXivmath/9910020OpenAlexW1980694977WikidataQ59275326 ScholiaQ59275326MaRDI QIDQ4541022FDOQ4541022

Juan González-Meneses

Publication date: 30 July 2002

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

Abstract: In this paper we give new presentations of the braid groups and the pure braid groups of a closed surface. We also give an algorithm to solve the word problem in these groups, using the given presentations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9910020

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmspure braid groupspresentationsword problemclosed surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

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