Permutational wreath pullbacks and framed braid-type groups
Abstract
Let be a surjective homomorphism and let be a group. We introduce the \emph{permutational wreath pullback} where the action of on is induced by permutation of coordinates via , and undertake a systematic structural study of this construction. We determine the center and the abelianization in full generality. We further show that admits a natural interpretation as the pullback of the classical wreath product along , providing a conceptual explanation for its functorial behavior. When is finitely generated abelian, we establish a criterion for the abelian kernel to be characteristic and for to inherit the -property from ; we verify this criterion for kernels arising from the virtual braid group and the virtual twin group , obtaining new families of framed groups with the -property. Rigidity results show that the abelian kernel, , , and are determined by the abstract group . Applications include uniform descriptions of classical, surface, virtual, and singular framed braid groups, and a reduction of splitting problems for framed surface braid groups to the classical Fadell--Neuwirth setting.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.05281,
title = {Permutational wreath pullbacks and framed braid-type groups},
author = {Ênio Leite and Oscar Ocampo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.05281},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
25 pages, Comments are welcome