Item Successfully Added to Cart
An error was encountered while trying to add the item to the cart. Please try again.
OK
Please make all selections above before adding to cart
OK
Share this page via the icons above, or by copying the link below:
Copy To Clipboard
Successfully Copied!
Geometric Representations of the Braid Groups
 
Fabrice Castel Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
A publication of the Société Mathématique de France
Geometric Representations of the Braid Groups
Softcover ISBN:  978-2-85629-835-0
Product Code:  AST/378
List Price: $67.00
AMS Member Price: $53.60
Please note AMS points can not be used for this product
Geometric Representations of the Braid Groups
Click above image for expanded view
Geometric Representations of the Braid Groups
Fabrice Castel Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
A publication of the Société Mathématique de France
Softcover ISBN:  978-2-85629-835-0
Product Code:  AST/378
List Price: $67.00
AMS Member Price: $53.60
Please note AMS points can not be used for this product
  • Book Details
     
     
    Astérisque
    Volume: 3782016; 175 pp
    MSC: Primary 20; 57

    Since the braid group and the mapping class group were defined in the first half of the last century, mathematicians have atempted, in vain, to compute the endomorphisms for both. In addition, each partial result in this direction has seemed to confirm a tight connection between the braid group and the mapping class group, without revealing the nature of this connection.

    In this paper, the author changes the point of view: determining all the homomorphisms from the braid group to the mapping class group via Thurston's theory. He explains their geometric nature and shows that they are almost all embeddings.

    Thanks to these new results, the author has found answers to these questions in a unified way.

    A publication of the Société Mathématique de France, Marseilles (SMF), distributed by the AMS in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Orders from other countries should be sent to the SMF. Members of the SMF receive a 30% discount from list.

    Readership

    Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in the braid group and mapping class group.

  • Additional Material
     
     
  • Requests
     
     
    Review Copy – for publishers of book reviews
    Accessibility – to request an alternate format of an AMS title
Volume: 3782016; 175 pp
MSC: Primary 20; 57

Since the braid group and the mapping class group were defined in the first half of the last century, mathematicians have atempted, in vain, to compute the endomorphisms for both. In addition, each partial result in this direction has seemed to confirm a tight connection between the braid group and the mapping class group, without revealing the nature of this connection.

In this paper, the author changes the point of view: determining all the homomorphisms from the braid group to the mapping class group via Thurston's theory. He explains their geometric nature and shows that they are almost all embeddings.

Thanks to these new results, the author has found answers to these questions in a unified way.

A publication of the Société Mathématique de France, Marseilles (SMF), distributed by the AMS in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Orders from other countries should be sent to the SMF. Members of the SMF receive a 30% discount from list.

Readership

Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in the braid group and mapping class group.

Review Copy – for publishers of book reviews
Accessibility – to request an alternate format of an AMS title
Please select which format for which you are requesting permissions.