Positive presentations of the braid groups and the embedding problem
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v2 Group Theory
Abstract
A large class of positive finite presentations of the braid groups is found and studied. It is shown that no presentations but known exceptions in this class have the property that equivalent braid words are also equivalent under positive relations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0103132,
title = {Positive presentations of the braid groups and the embedding problem},
author = {Jae Woo Han and Ki Hyoung Ko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0103132},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
21 pages, 26 figures, to appear in Math. Z