Inclusion of configuration spaces in Cartesian products, and the virtual cohomological dimension of the braid groups of \(\mathbb{S}^2\) and \(\mathbb{R}P^2\)

DOI10.2140/pjm.2017.287.71zbMath1423.55027arXiv1511.02101MaRDI QIDQ514623

Daciberg Lima Gonçalves, John Guaschi

Publication date: 9 March 2017

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02101

zbMATH Keywords

group presentations; configuration spaces; virtual cohomological dimension; surface braid groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F36: Braid groups; Artin groups

20J06: Cohomology of groups

55R80: Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology