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Analogues of the braid group whose graphs are stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Andrew K. Napthine
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Department of Pure MathematicsUniversity of SheffieldHicks BuildingSheffield S3 7RH
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Let G be a group having presentation

a braid relator and a commutator respectively, and define the graph of such a group as having vertices labelled x1,…, xn + 1 and such that xi and xj are joined if and only if rij = (xi, xj).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1985

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