Pure braid groups are not residually free.

zbMATH Open1282.20035arXiv1106.4602MaRDI QIDQ4914736FDOQ4914736

Authors: Daniel C. Cohen, Michael Falk, Richard Randell 

Publication date: 15 April 2013

Abstract: We show that the Artin pure braid group on at least four strands is not residually free. Our results also show that the pure braid group on at least three strands has corank two.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4602

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zbMATH Keywords

epimorphismsresidually free groupsArtin pure braid groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

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