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We introduce and study a family of groups $\mathbf{BB}_n$, called the blocked-braid groups, which are quotients of Artin's braid groups $\mathbf{B}_n$, and have the corresponding symmetric groups $\Sigma_n$ as quotients. They are defined by…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-23 D. Maglia , N. Sabadini , R. F. C. Walters

Given a group $G$ and an integer $n \geq 0$, let $\mathcal{F}_n$ denote the family of all virtually abelian subgroups of $G$ of rank at most $n$. In this article, we show that for each $n \geq 1$, the minimal dimension of a model for the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Ramón Flores , Juan González-Meneses , Porfirio L. León-Álvarez

In this paper we prove that all pure Artin braid groups $P_n$ ($n\geq 3$) have the $R_\infty$ property. In order to obtain this result, we analyse the naturally induced morphism $\operatorname{\text{Aut}}(P_n) \to…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Karel Dekimpe , Daciberg Lima Gonçalves , Oscar Ocampo

Given a positive integer $n$, we say that two knots are $V_n$-equivalent if they have the same Vassiliev invariants of order $\le n$. We showed that the $V_n$-equivalence classes of ribbon knots form a group, the operation being induced by…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Ka Yi Ng

We study the finiteness properties of the braided Higman--Thompson group $bV_{d,r}(H)$ with labels in $H\leq B_d$, and $bF_{d,r}(H)$ and $bT_{d,r}(H)$ with labels in $H\leq PB_d$ where $B_d$ is the braid group with $d$ strings and $PB_d$ is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Rachel Skipper , Xiaolei Wu

There is a well known injective homomorphism $\phi:{\mathcal {B}}_n \rightarrow {\rm Aut}(F_n)$ from the classical braid group ${\mathcal {B}}_n$ into the automorphism group of the free group $F_n$, first described by Artin. This…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Oleg Chterental

For an integer $n \geq 2$, set $B_n$ to be the braid group on $n$ strands and $SB_n$ to be the singular braid group on $n$ strands. $SB_n$ is one of the important group extensions of $B_n$ that appeared in 1998. Our aim in this paper is to…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Mohamad N. Nasser

Twin groups and virtual twin groups are planar analogues of braid groups and virtual braid groups, respectively. These groups play the role of braid groups in the Alexander-Markov correspondence for the theory of stable isotopy classes of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Tushar Kanta Naik , Neha Nanda , Mahender Singh

This paper classifies complex homogeneous $2$-local representations of the multiple virtual braid group $M_kVB_n$ into $\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{C})$ for $n\geq3$ and $k >1$, showing that such representations fall into exactly $2^{k+1}+1$…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Vaibhav Keshari , Mohamad N. Nasser , Madeti Prabhakar

This paper gives a new interpretation of the virtual braid group in terms of a strict monoidal category SC that is freely generated by one object and three morphisms, two of the morphisms corresponding to basic pure virtual braids and one…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Louis H. Kauffman , Sofia Lambropoulou

In this article, we investigate various properties of the pure virtual braid group PV_3. From its canonical presentation, we obtain a free product decomposition of PV_3. As a consequence, we show that PV_3 is residually torsion free…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-06-10 V. G. Bardakov , R. Mikhailov , V. V. Vershinin , J. Wu

Braided Thompson's groups are finitely presented groups introduced by Brin and Dehornoy which contain the ordinary braid groups $B_n$, the finitary braid group $B_{\infty}$ and Thompson's group $F$ as subgroups. We describe some of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-19 José Burillo , Sean Cleary

We show that an accessible group with infinitely many ends has property $R_{\infty}$. That is, it has infinitely many twisted conjugacy classes for any twisting automorphism. We deduce that having property $R_{\infty}$ is undecidable…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Francesco Fournier-Facio , Harry Iveson , Armando Martino , Wagner Sgobbi , Peter Wong

Matthew Brin and Patrick Dehornoy independently discovered a braided version BV of Thompson's group V. In this paper, we discuss some properties of BV that might make the group interesting for group based cryptography. In particular, we…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-07-02 Kai-Uwe Bux , Dmitriy Sonkin

In~\cite{Ma} Manturov studied groups $G_{n}^{k}$ for fixed integers $n$ and $k$ such that $k<n$. In particular, $G_{n}^{2}$ is isomorphic to the group of free braids of $n$-stands. In~\cite{KiMa} Manturov and the author studied an invariant…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-03 S. Kim

Virtual knots arise in the study of Gauss diagrams and Vassiliev invariants of usual knots. Virtual braids correspond naturally to virtual knots. We consider the group of virtual braids on n strings VB_n and its Burau representation, in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-02-22 V. V. Vershinin

In this article, we introduce the algebraic definitions and presentations of the virtual singular twin monoid and virtual singular twin group, denoted by $VSTM_n$ and $VST_n$, respectively, for a positive integer $n$. These structures…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Carmen Caprau , Mohamad N. Nasser

We study $K$-theoretical aspects of the braid groups $B\_n(\mathbb{S}^{2})$ on $n$ strings of the $2$-sphere, which by results of the second two authors, are known to satisfy the Farrell-Jones fibred isomorphism conjecture~\cite{JM}. In…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2018-07-03 John Guaschi , Daniel Juan-Pineda , Silvia Millán-López

We define virtual braid groups of type B and construct a morphism from such a group to the group of isomorphism classes of some invertible complexes of bimodules up to homotopy.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-03-18 Anne-Laure Thiel