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Pr\'esentation des groupes de tresses purs et de certaines de leurs extensions

Group Theory 2016-01-08 v3

Abstract

This paper dates back to 1999 but was never published. The major part of it was included in the joint paper [Digne-Gomi, Presentation of pure braid groups, J. Knot Theory and its Ramifications 10 (2001) 609--623]. Sections 2 and 6 were not included there. They are independent from the rest of the paper. In section 2 we define a morphism from a braid group B associated to a Coxeter Group W to the semi-direct product of ZT (where T is the set of reflections) by W. This morphism lifts the map N from W to (Z/2Z)T defined by Dyer in [Reflection subgroups of Coxeter systems, J. Algebra 135 (1990) 57--73] and its restriction to the pure braid group P identifies with the abelianization morphism. In section 6 we prove that our morphism gives the cocycle associated to the extension B/(P,P) of W by P/(P,P). This extension has been studied recently by Beck [Abelianization of subgroups of reflection groups and their braid groups: an application to cohomology. Manuscripta Math. 136 (2011) 273--293] and by Marin [Reflection groups acting on their hyperplanes J. Algebra 322 (2009) 2848--2860] and [Crystallographic groups and flat manifolds from complex reflection groups, arXiv 1509.06213].

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@article{arxiv.1511.08731,
  title  = {Pr\'esentation des groupes de tresses purs et de certaines de leurs extensions},
  author = {François Digne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08731},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

in French. This version: a correction in definition 2.4