Lower central series, surface braid groups, surjections and permutations
Geometric Topology
2023-06-22 v1 Group Theory
Abstract
Generalising previous results on classical braid groups by Artin and Lin, we determine the values of m, n N for which there exists a surjection between the n-and m-string braid groups of an orientable surface without boundary. This result is essentially based on specific properties of their lower central series, and the proof is completely combinatorial. We provide similar but partial results in the case of orientable surfaces with boundary components and of non-orientable surfaces without boundary. We give also several results about the classification of different representations of surface braid groups in symmetric groups.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.12214,
title = {Lower central series, surface braid groups, surjections and permutations},
author = {Paolo Bellingeri and Daciberg Lima Gonçalves and John Guaschi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.12214},
year = {2023}
}