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Braid groups and the group of homeomorphisms of a surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

G. P. Scott
G. P. Scott
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University of Liverpool
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Braid groups on the plane were denned by Artin(1) in 1925. More recently Fox(8) defined braid groups on arbitrary topological spaces, the situation being particularly interesting if the space is a 2-manifold. Presentations of the braid groups on R2, S2 and P2 can be found in (2), (6) and (13) respectively, and some general results on braid groups of compact 2-manifolds can be found in (7). In section 1 of this paper, we give finite presentations for the braid groups on all closed 2-manifolds except S2 and P2.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 68 , Issue 3 , November 1970 , pp. 605 - 617
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1970

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