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In this paper we introduce the framed pure braid group on $n$ strands of an oriented surface, a topological generalisation of the pure braid group $P_n$. We give different equivalents definitions for framed pure braid groups and we study exact sequences relating these groups with other generalisations of $P_n$, usually…

Positive braids linked to knot invariants and geometric monodromy groups.

New representations for framed braid groups defined.

New framed moves extend classical knot theory results.

In this paper we define the $p$-adic framed braid group ${\mathcal F}_{\infty,n}$, arising as the inverse limit of the modular framed braids and we give topological generators for ${\mathcal F}_{\infty, n}$. We also give geometric interpretations for the $p$-adic framed braids. We then construct a $p$-adic Yokonuma-Hec…

In this paper we prove certain Hurwitz equivalence properties in the braid group. Our main result is that every two factorizations of $Δ_n ^2$ where the elements of the factorization are semi-frame are Hurwitz equivalent. The results of this paper are generalization of the results in \cite{B4}. We use a new presentatio…

Study of permutational wreath pullbacks and their properties.

Defines fundamental racks for braid spaces of complex reflection groups.

Study of decorated surfaces with vortices and their group structures.

We define an invariant of tangles and framed tangles given a finite crossed module and a pair of functions, called a Reidemeister pair, satisfying natural properties. We give several examples of Reidemeister pairs derived from racks, quandles, rack and quandle cocycles, 2-crossed modules and braided crossed modules. We…

The Yokonuma-Hecke algebras are quotients of the modular framed braid group and they support Markov traces. In this paper, which is sequel to Juyumaya and Lambropoulou (2007), we explore further the structures of the $p$-adic framed braids and the $p$-adic Yokonuma-Hecke algebras constructed in Juyumaya and Lambropoulo…

New knot invariant from 3-braids and 6-valent graphs.

Study of polynomial strata using braid groups and translation surfaces.

The paper finds Artin presentations for the trivial group and identifies hyperbolic 3-braids.

In this paper we represent the classical braids in the Yokonuma--Hecke and the adelic Yokonuma--Hecke algebras. More precisely, we define the completion of the framed braid group and we introduce the adelic Yokonuma--Hecke algebras, in analogy to the $p$--adic framed braids and the $p$--adic Yokonuma--Hecke algebras in…

Classifies braids with positive Artin presentations and their fundamental groups.

Study framizations of algebras using Schur--Weyl duality and tied braids.

We examine the action of the fundamental group $Γ$ of a Riemann surface with $m$ punctures on the middle dimensional homology of a regular fiber in a Lefschetz fibration, and describe to what extent this action can be recovered from the intersection numbers of vanishing cycles. Basis changes for the vanishing cycles re…

Consider the unit ball, $B = D \times [0,1]$, containing $n$ unknotted arcs $a_1, a_2, ..., a_n$ such that the boundary of each $a_i$ lies in $D \times \{0\}$. The Hilden (or Wicket) group is the mapping class group of $B$ fixing the arcs $a_1 \cup a_2 \cup ... \cup a_n$ setwise and fixing $D \times \{1\}$ pointwise. T…

In this paper we describe braid equivalence for knots and links in a 3-manifold $M$ obtained by rational surgery along a framed link in $S^3$. We first prove a sharpened version of the Reidemeister theorem for links in $M$. We then give geometric formulations of the braid equivalence via mixed braids in $S^3$ using the…

This paper identifies braided 3-belts that can be written in a braid-only form.

We generalize Ng's two-variable algebraic/combinatorial $0$-th framed knot contact homology for framed oriented knots in $S^3$ to knots in $S^1 \times S^2$, and prove that the resulting knot invariant is the same as the framed cord algebra of knots. Actually, our cord algebra has an extra variable, which potentially co…

Constructs taut foliations for surgeries on positive 3-braids, confirming L-space conjecture.

Classic braids embed in virtual braids.

We study the structure of the virtual braid group. It is shown that the virtual braid group is a semi--direct product of the virtual pure braid group and the symmetric group. Also, it is shown that the virtual pure braid group is a semi--direct product of free groups. From these results we obtain a normal form of words…

The paper examines subgroup separability for surface and virtual braid groups.

The paper finds minimal generating sets and abelianizes the quasitoric braid group.

Study virtual braid groups, proving a key subgroup result.

Paper explores relations between braid groups and their quotients.

Paper proves homotopy braid group properties over integers and three strands.

In [V.O. Manturov, Non-reidemeister knot theory and its applications in dynamical systems, geometry, and topology, arxiv:1501.05208] the first named author gave the definition of $k$-free braid groups $G_n^k$. Here we establish connections between free braid groups, classical braid groups and free groups: we describe e…

Polynomials with distinct critical values have braid monodromy groups equal to braid groups.

Study on commutator subgroups of singular and virtual braid groups.

New virtual braid group structure and presentation found.

The paper studies orbifold braid groups and their properties.

We give formulae for the first homology of the $n$-braid group and the pure 2-braid group over a finite graph in terms of graph theoretic invariants. As immediate consequences, a graph is planar if and only if the first homology of the $n$-braid group over the graph is torsion-free and the conjectures about the first h…

We ask if any finite type generalized braid group is a subgroup of some classical Artin braid group. We define a natural map from a given finite type generalized braid group to a classical braid group and ask if this map is an injective homomorphism. We prove that this map is a homomorphism for the braid groups of type…

New representation for braid groups and surface braid groups, extending Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow.

New family of braided Thompson groups introduced using recursive braids.

Classifies homomorphisms between specific braid groups.

Study on braid groups' congruence subgroups and their crystallographic quotients.

In this paper we introduce distinct approaches to loop braid groups, a generalisation of braid groups, and unify all the definitions that have appeared so far in literature, with a complete proof of the equivalence of these definitions. These groups have in fact been an object of interest in different domains of mathem…

Study automorphism groups of braid groups with 4 or more strings.

Study of infinite-string braids as a limit of finite ones.

Magic braids can be made with leatherworking technique.

Drinfel'd used associators to construct families of universal representations of braid groups. We consider semi-associators (i.e., we drop the pentagonal axiom and impose a normalization in degree one). We show that the process may be reversed, to obtain semi-associators from universal representations of 3-braids. We v…

The paper studies Majorana Fermions and their braid group representations.

This paper studies the normal closure of braid groups in a torus.