Pure braid subgroups of braided Thompson's groups



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Pure braid subgroups of braided Thompson's groups

Tom Brady, José Burillo, Sean Cleary, and Melanie Stein

Source: Publ. Mat. Volume 52, Number 1 (2008), 57-89.

Abstract

We describe some properties of braided generalizations of Thompson's groups, introduced by Brin and Dehornoy. We give slightly different characterizations of the braided Thompson's groups $BV$ and $\widehat{BV}$ which lead to natural presentations which emphasize one of their subgroup-containment properties. We consider pure braided versions of Thompson's group $F$. These groups, $BF$ and $\widehat{BF}$, are subgroups of the braided versions of Thompson's group $V$. Unlike $V$, elements of $F$ are order-preserving self-maps of the interval and we use pure braids together with elements of $F$ thus again preserving order. We define these pure braided groups, give normal forms for elements, and construct infinite and finite presentations of these groups.

Primary Subjects: 20F65
Secondary Subjects: 20F36, 20F05, 20E22
Keywords: Thompson’s groups; braid groups; pure braids; braided tree diagrams

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