Basic results on braid groups.

DOI10.5802/AMBP.293zbMATH Open1264.20035arXiv1010.0321OpenAlexW2963654003MaRDI QIDQ540762FDOQ540762

Authors: Juan González-Meneses 

Publication date: 3 June 2011

Published in: Annales Mathématiques Blaise Pascal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: These are Lecture Notes of a course given by the author at the French-Spanish School "Tresses in Pau", held in Pau (France) in October 2009. It is basically an introduction to distinct approaches and techniques that can be used to show results in braid groups. Using these techniques we provide several proofs of well known results in braid groups, namely the correctness of Artin's presentation, that the braid group is torsion free, or that its center is generated by the full twist. We also recall some solutions of the word and conjugacy problems, and that roots of a braid are always conjugate. We also describe the centralizer of a given braid. Most proofs are classical ones, using modern terminology. I have chosen those which I find simpler or more beautiful.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0321

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zbMATH Keywords

rootscentralizersconjugacy problembraid groupslinearityword problemorderabilityArtin presentationsDehornoy theoremNielsen-Thurston theorytorsion freeness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

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