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We study a certain type of braid closure which resembles the plat closure but has certain advantages; for example, it maps pure braids to knots. The main results of this note are a Markov-type theorem and a description of how Vassiliev…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jacob Mostovoy , Theodore Stanford

In this paper, we introduce a new concept called left (right) g-MP inverse in a $*$-monoid. The relations of this type of generalized inverse with left inverse along an element are investigated. Also, the reverse order law for the inverse…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Huihui Zhu , Jianlong Chen , Pedro Patricio

We define and study extensions of Artin's representation and braid monodromy representation to the case of topological and algebraical generalisations of braid groups. In particular we provide faithful representations of braid groups of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Valerij G. Bardakov , Paolo Bellingeri

Neural network systems describe complex mappings that can be very difficult to understand. In this paper, we study the inverse problem of determining the input images that get mapped to specific neural network classes. Ultimately, we expect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Rebecca Pattichis , Sebastian Janampa , Constantinos S. Pattichis , Marios S. Pattichis

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.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Juan Gonzalez-Meneses

The mixed braid groups are the subgroups of Artin braid groups whose elements preserve a given partition of the base points. We prove that the centralizer of any braid can be expressed in terms of semidirect and direct products of mixed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Juan Gonzalez-Meneses , Bert Wiest

We state a conjecture about centralizers of certain roots of central elements in braid groups, and check it for Artin braid groups and some other cases. Our proof makes use of results by Birman-Ko-Lee; we give a new intrinsic account of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Bessis , Francois Digne , Jean Michel

We propose two definitions of configuration Lie groupoids and in both the cases we prove a Fadell-Neuwirth type fibration theorem for a class of Lie groupoids. We show that this is the best possible extension, in the sense that, for the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-08 S K Roushon

We prove that the class of finitely presented inverse monoids whose Sch\"utzenberger graphs are quasi-isometric to trees has a uniformly solvable word problem, furthermore, the languages of their Sch\"utzenberger automata are context-free.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-18 Robert D. Gray , Pedro V. Silva , Nóra Szakács

We find a polynomial (n^6) isoperimetric function for Artin groups, the defining graph of which contains no edges labelled by 3. This in particular shows that even Artin groups have solvable word problem. We use small cancellation theory of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Arye Juhasz

Let $g, n \geq 0$ and $\Sigma = \Sigma_{g, n}$ be a connected oriented surface of genus $g$ with $n$ punctures. The $\mathrm{SL}_2$-character variety of $\Sigma$ has a rigid relative automorphism group, whose elements fix each monodromies…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Seong Youn Kim

In this paper we show that the singular braid monoid of an orientable surface can be embedded in a group. The proof is purely topological, making no use of the monoid presentation.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jeronimo Diaz-Cantos , Juan Gonzalez-Meneses , Jose M. Tornero

It is well known that the existence of a braiding in a monoidal category V allows many structures to be built upon that foundation. These include a monoidal 2-category V-Cat of enriched categories and functors over V, a monoidal bicategory…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Stefan Forcey , Felita Humes

As part of his study of representations of the polycylic monoids, M.V. Lawson described all the closed inverse submonoids of a polycyclic monoid $P_n$ and classified them up to conjugacy. We show that Lawson's description can be extended to…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-17 Amal AlAli , N. D. Gilbert

Various properties of a class of braid matrices, presented before, are studied considering $N^2 \times N^2 (N=3,4,...)$ vector representations for two subclasses. For $q=1$ the matrices are nontrivial. Triangularity $(\hat R^2 =I)$…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-11-10 A. Chakrabarti

Graph inverse semigroups generalize the polycyclic inverse monoids and play an important role in the theory of C*-algebras. This paper has two main goals: first, to provide an abstract characterization of graph inverse semigroups; and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-14 David G. Jones , Mark V. Lawson

In this paper we introduce the framed pure braid group on $n$ strands of an oriented surface, a topological generalisation of the pure braid group $P_n$. We give different equivalents definitions for framed pure braid groups and we study…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Paolo Bellingeri , Sylvain Gervais

We reduce a strong version of the twist conjecture for Artin groups to Artin groups whose defining graphs have no separating vertices. This produces new examples of Artin groups satisfying the conjecture, and sheds more light on the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Oli Jones , Giorgio Mangioni , Giovanni Sartori

For a word w in the braid group on n-strands, we denote by T_w the corresponding transverse braid in the rotational symmetric tight contact structure on S^3. We exhibit a map on link Floer homology which sends the transverse invariant…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-20 John A. Baldwin

The faces of the braid arrangement form a monoid. The associated monoid algebra -- the face algebra -- is well-studied, especially in relation to card shuffling and other Markov chains. In this paper, we explore the action of the symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Patricia Commins