Still another approach to the braid ordering.

Publication date 14 November 2008

Abstract: We develop a new approach to the linear ordering of the braid group

B_{n}

, based on investigating its restriction to the set

D i v (D e l t a_{n}^{d})

of all divisors of

D e l t a_{n}^{d}

in the monoid

B_{i} n f t y^{+}

, i.e., to positive

n

-braids whose normal form has length at most

d

. In the general case, we compute several numerical parameters attached with the finite orders

(D i v (D e l t a_{n}^{d}), <)

. In the case of 3 strands, we moreover give a complete description of the increasing enumeration of

(D i v (D e l t a_{3}^{d}), <)

. We deduce a new and specially direct construction of the ordering on

B_{3}

, and a new proof of the result that its restriction to

B_{3}^{+}

is a well-ordering of ordinal type

o m e g a^{o} m e g a

.

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