Vector braids

DOI10.1016/S0022-4049(98)00006-1MaRDI QIDQ1295608zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 9 September 2002

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9407094

presentations Artin braid groups groups of motions generalized braid groups

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: In this paper we define a new family of groups which generalize the {it classical braid groups on}

C

. We denote this family by

{B_{n}^{m}}_{n g e m + 1}

where

n, m i n N

. The family

{B_{n}^{1}}_{n i n N}

is the set of classical braid groups on

n

strings. The group

B_{n}^{m}

is the set of motions of

n

unordered points in

C^{m}

, so that at any time during the motion, each

m + 1

of the points span the whole of

C^{m}

as an affine space. There is a map from

B_{n}^{m}

to the symmetric group on

n

letters. We let

P_{n}^{m}

denote the kernel of this map. In this paper we are mainly interested in understanding

P_{n}^{2}

. We give a presentation of a group

P L_{n}

which maps surjectively onto

P_{n}^{2}

. We also show the surjection

P L_{n} o P_{n}^{2}

induces an isomorphism on first and second integral homology and conjecture that it is an isomorphism. We then find an infinitesimal presentation of the group

P_{n}^{2}

. Finally, we also consider the analagous groups where points lie in

P^{m}

instead of

C^{m}

. These groups generalize of the classical braid groups on the sphere.

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