On braids and links up to link-homotopy

Publication date: 4 October 2022

Abstract: This paper deals with links and braids up to link-homotopy, studied from the viewpoint of Habiro's clasper calculus. More precisely, we use clasper homotopy calculus in two main directions. First, we define and compute a faithful linear representation of the homotopy braid group, by using claspers as geometric commutators. Second, we give a geometric proof of Levine's classification of 4-component links up to link-homotopy, and go further with the classification of 5-component links in the algebraically split case.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

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