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New presentations of surface braid groups

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

In this paper we give new presentations of the braid groups and the pure braid groups of a closed surface. We also give an algorithm to solve the word problem in these groups, using the given presentations.

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@article{arxiv.math/9910020,
  title  = {New presentations of surface braid groups},
  author = {Juan Gonzalez-Meneses},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9910020},
  year   = {2007}
}

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30 pages, 14 figures