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POSITIVE PRESENTATIONS OF SURFACE BRAID GROUPS

PAOLO BELLINGERI

Università Milano-Bicocca, Dipartimento Matematica e Applicazioni, Via Cozzi, 53, 20126 Milano, Italy

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EDDY GODELLE

Univ. Caen, Laboratoire de Mathématiques Nicolas Oresme, CNRS 6139, 14032 Caen, France

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218216507005762Cited by:5 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We provide new group presentations for surface braid groups which are positive. We study some properties of such presentations and we solve the conjugacy problem in a particular case.

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AMSC: Primary 20F36, Secondary 20F05

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