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arxiv: math/0412531 · v2 · submitted 2004-12-29 · 🧮 math.GT · math.GR

Stellar Braiding

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We construct a one-dimensional deformation retract of the unordered k-point configuration space of a star S. This retract suggests an explicit set of free generators Beta_k for the corresponding braid group of the star B_k and shows that the natural map from B_k-1 to B_k sends Beta_k-1 to Beta_k injectively.

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