Braid groups and Burnside groups
Group Theory
2026-07-14 v1 Geometric Topology
Abstract
There exists an exceptional quotient of braid groups that is related to many interesting constructions in algebra, topology, and geometry. This quotient map also descends to a quotient of "truncated" braid groups , which have an added torsion relation on their half twist generators. In this article, we find a presentation for the kernel of this truncated quotient map that takes the form of what we deem a "primitive" Burnside group. We give a few finiteness results on these primitive Burnside groups. Our methods are purely group theoretic, but we comment on an interpretation involving Lefschetz fibrations at the end.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.13316,
title = {Braid groups and Burnside groups},
author = {Ethan Dlugie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.13316},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
10 pages, 2 figures