The group of fractions of a torsion free lcm monoid is torsion free.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2004.03.031zbMATH Open1064.20054arXivmath/0311327OpenAlexW2087520437MaRDI QIDQ706016FDOQ706016

Authors: Patrick Dehornoy 

Publication date: 16 February 2005

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We improve and shorten the argument given in(Journal of Algebra, vol.~210 (1998) pp~291--297). Inparticular, the fact that Artin braid groups are torsion free now follows from Garside's results almost immediately.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0311327

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zbMATH Keywords

cancellative monoidsArtin braid groupstorsion free groupsgroups of fractions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems (20M05)

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