An acyclic extension of the braid group

DOI10.1007/BF02566638zbMath0736.20020MaRDI QIDQ1174608

Peter Greenberg, Vlad Sergiescu

Publication date: 25 June 1992

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/140225

zbMATH Keywords

classifying spacehomotopy typeYang-Baxter equationgroup actionsloop spacenormal subgroupinfinite symmetric groupintegral homologyQuillen plus constructionstar-triangle equationacyclic group\(PL\)- homeomorphismsinfinite Artin Braid Grouppath space fibrationtriangle rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

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