Artin groups and geometric monodromy
Artin groups and geometric monodromy
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Artin群和几何单一性
DOI:
10.1007/s002220050353
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
B. Wajnryb
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作者:
B. Wajnryb
The main result of this paper says that Artin groups (generalized braid groups) of type E6, E7, E8 cannot be embedded into a mapping class group of a surface in such a way that the standard generators of the Artin group are mapped onto Dehn twists. Similar problem for some other Artin groups was considered in papers [8] and [7]. Groups Ei are the domains of geometric monodromy homomorphism of isolated singularities of the same name, where the target group is the mapping class group of a surface. The monodromy homomorphism takes the standard generators of the Artin group onto Dehn twists. The above result gives a negative answer to a question of Sullivan (see [1]): is a geometric monodromy of an isolated singularity of a curve always injective?We recall first some definitions. A Coxeter group is a finitely generated group G which admits the following presentation. It is generated by a1, a2,..., ak with the defining relations (aiaj) ni, j= 1, where ni, j is a positive integer or∞(when aiaj has infinite order in G) and ni, j= 1 if and only if i= j. It is known that the order of the element aiaj in G is equal to ni, j. In the presence of relations