Geometric embeddings of braid groups do not merge conjugacy classes.

DOI10.1007/S40590-014-0018-6zbMATH Open1307.20032arXiv1308.1243OpenAlexW2020933913MaRDI QIDQ485072FDOQ485072

Juan González-Meneses

Publication date: 9 January 2015

Published in: Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An embedding of the m-times punctured disc into the n-times punctured disc, for n>m, yields an embedding of the braid group on m strands B_m into the braid group on n strands B_n, called a geometric embedding. The main example consists of adding n-m trivial strands to the right of each braid on m strands. We show that geometric embeddings do not merge conjugacy classes, meaning that if the images of two elements in B_m by a geometric embedding are conjugate in B_n, the original elements are conjugate in B_m. We also show that the result does not hold, in general, for geometric embeddings of mapping class groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.1243

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zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupsconjugacy classesbraid groupsgeometric embeddings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07)

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• Theory of braids
• Geometric subgroups of mapping class groups
• Abelian and solvable subgroups of the mapping class group
• Configuration Spaces.
• Artin groups and geometric monodromy
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• The Braid Groups.

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