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On groups $G_{n}^{k}$, braids and Brunnian braids

Geometric Topology 2016-06-15 v2

Abstract

In \cite{Manturov} the second author defined the kk-free braid group with nn strands GnkG_{n}^{k}. These groups appear naturally as groups describing dynamical systems of nn particles in some "general position". Moreover, in \cite{ManturovNikonov} the second author and I.M.Nikonov showed that GnkG_{n}^{k} is closely related classical braids. The authors showed that there are homomorphisms from the pure braids group on nn strands to Gn3G_{n}^{3} and Gn4G_{n}^{4} and they defined homomorphisms from GnkG_{n}^{k} to the free product of Z2\mathbb{Z}_{2}. That is, there are invariants for pure free braids by Gn3G_{n}^{3} and Gn4G_{n}^{4}. On the other hand in \cite{FedoseevManturov} D.A.Fedoseev and the second author studied classical braids with addition structures: parity and points on each strands. The authors showed that the parity, which is an abstract structure, has geometric meaning -- points on strands. In \cite{Kim}, the first author studied Gn2G_{n}^{2} with parity and points. the author construct a homomorphism from Gn+12G_{n+1}^{2} to the group Gn2G_{n}^{2} with parity. In the present paper, we investigate the groups Gn3G_{n}^{3} and extract new powerful invariants of classical braids from Gn3G_{n}^{3}. In particular, these invariants allow one to distinguish the non-triviality of Brunnian braids.

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@article{arxiv.1606.03563,
  title  = {On groups $G_{n}^{k}$, braids and Brunnian braids},
  author = {S. Kim and V. O. Manturov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.03563},
  year   = {2016}
}

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14 pages, 6 figures