Pure braid groups are not residually free.

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Authors Daniel C. Cohen, Michael Falk, Richard Randell

Publication date 15 April 2013

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

zbMATH Keywords

Artin pure braid groupsepimorphismsresidually free groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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