Finite quotients of braid groups
Geometric Topology
2019-12-12 v3 Group Theory
Abstract
We derive a lower bound on the size of finite non-cyclic quotients of the braid group that is superexponential in the number of strands. We also derive a similar lower bound for nontrivial finite quotients of the commutator subgroup of the braid group.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1910.07177,
title = {Finite quotients of braid groups},
author = {Alice Chudnovsky and Kevin Kordek and Qiao Li and Caleb Partin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.07177},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
7 pages, final version; to appear in Geometriae Dedicata