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Examples of centralizers in the Artin braid groups

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to construct examples of centralizers in the Artin braid groups requiring the number of generators quadratic in the number of strings. These examples disprove a recent conjecture of N. Franco and J. Gonzalez-Meneses.

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@article{arxiv.math/0306418,
  title  = {Examples of centralizers in the Artin braid groups},
  author = {Nikolai V. Ivanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0306418},
  year   = {2007}
}

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