ON POWERS OF HALF-TWISTS IN M(0, 2n)

DOI10.1017/S0017089517000143MaRDI QIDQ4636387zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gregor Masbaum

Publication date 19 April 2018

Published in Glasgow Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08449

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) Knot theory (57K10) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56)

Abstract: We use elementary skein theory to prove a version of a result of Stylianakis who showed that under mild restrictions on m and n, the normal closure of the m-th power of a half-twist has infinite index in the mapping class group of a sphere with 2n punctures.

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