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Homomorphisms of commutator subgroups of braid groups with small number of strings

Group Theory 2024-12-04 v2

Abstract

For any nn, we describe all endomorphisms of the braid group BnB_n and of its commutator subgroup BnB'_n, as well as all homomorphisms BnBnB'_n\to B_n. These results are new only for small nn because endomorphisms of BnB_n are already described by Castel for n6n\ge 6, and homomorphisms BnBnB'_n\to B_n and endomorphisms of BnB'_n are already described by Kordek and Margalit for n7n\ge 7. We use very different approaches for n=4n=4 and for n5n\ge 5.

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@article{arxiv.2010.02446,
  title  = {Homomorphisms of commutator subgroups of braid groups with small number of strings},
  author = {S. Yu. Orevkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.02446},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

13 pages, 4 figures. There is an error in the proof of Lemma 3.2 in Version 1. This error is corrected in Version 2