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arxiv: 1403.4622 · v5 · pith:RRYAHPHMnew · submitted 2014-03-18 · 🧮 math.GR · cs.CC· cs.CR

Complete simultaneous conjugacy invariants in Artin's braid groups

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keywords artinbraidgroupsinvariantcompleteconjugacysimultaneoussolution
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We solve the simultaneous conjugacy problem in Artin's braid groups and, more generally, in Garside groups, by means of a complete, effectively computable, finite invariant. This invariant generalizes the one-dimensional notion of super summit set to arbitrary dimensions. One key ingredient in our solution is the introduction of a provable high-dimensional version of the Birman--Ko--Lee cycling theorem. The complexity of this solution is a small degree polynomial in the cardinalities of our generalized super summit sets and the input parameters. Computer experiments suggest that the cardinality of this invariant, for a list of order $N$ independent elements of Artin's braid group $B_N$, is generically close to~1.

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