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A BRAIDED SIMPLICIAL GROUP
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 April 2002
Abstract
By studying the braid group action on Milnor's construction of the 1-sphere, we show that the general higher homotopy group of the 3-sphere is the fixed set of the pure braid group action on certain combinatorially described groups. This establishes a relation between the braid groups and the homotopy groups of the sphere.
2000Mathematical Subject Classification: 20F36, 55P35, 55Q05, 55Q40, 55U10.
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- 2002 London Mathematical Society
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