The pure braid groups and their relatives
Group Theory
2017-12-12 v2 Geometric Topology
Abstract
In this mostly survey paper, we investigate the resonance varieties, the lower central series ranks, and the Chen ranks, as well as the residual and formality properties of several families of braid-like groups: the pure braid groups , the welded pure braid groups , the virtual pure braid groups , as well as their `upper' variants, and . We also discuss several natural homomorphisms between these groups, and various ways to distinguish among the pure braid groups and their relatives.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1602.05291,
title = {The pure braid groups and their relatives},
author = {Alexander I. Suciu and He Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.05291},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
24 pages; expanded version, to appear in the proceedings of the intensive research period on Perspectives in Lie theory (Pisa, 2015), Springer INdAM series