Braids on surfaces and finite type invariants

arxiv: math/0309245 · v2 · submitted 2003-09-15 · 🧮 math.GT · math.GR

Paolo Bellingeri , Louis Funar This is my paper

classification 🧮 math.GT math.GR

keywords braidsfinitesigmatypefunctorialgenusinvariantinvariants

0 comments

read the original abstract

We prove that there is no functorial universal finite type invariant for braids in $\Sigma\times I$ if the genus of $\Sigma$ is positive.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.