Presentations of subgroups of the braid group generated by powers of band generators.

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2010.01.012MaRDI QIDQ968905zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Lönne

Publication date 10 May 2010

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1469

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupspresentationsright-angled Artin groupsTits conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: According to the Tits conjecture proved by Crisp and Paris, [CP], the subgroups of the braid group generated by proper powers of the Artin elements are presented by the commutators of generators which are powers of commuting elements. Hence they are naturally presented as right-angled Artin groups. The case of subgroups generated by powers of the band generators is more involved. We show that the groups are right-angled Artin groups again, if all generators are proper powers with exponent at least 3. We also give a presentation in cases at the other extreme, when all generators occur with exponent 1 or 2, which is far from being that of a right-angled Artin group.

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