A Special Subgroup of the Surface Braid Group

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Authors: D. Jeremy Copeland 

Publication date: 24 September 2004

Abstract: Herein we prove that if $M$ is a compact oriented Riemann surface of genus $g$, and $M^{[n]}$ is the classifying space of $n$ distinct, unordered points on $M$, then the kernel of the map $p{i}_1(M^{[n]})o{H}_1(M)$ is generated by transpositions for sufficiently large $n$. Specifically, we treat $M$ as a polyhedron, and the edge set of $M$ generates this group.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

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