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Braids and crossed modules

Johannes Huebschmann

Published 2009-04-24, updated 2010-01-03Version 2

We describe Artin's braid group on a (fixed) finite number of strings as a crossed module over itself. In particular, we interpret the braid relations as crossed module structure relations.

Comments: 18 pages
Journal: J. of Group Theory 15 (2012), 57-83
Categories: math.AT, math.GR
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