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Braid pictures for Artin groups
Authors:Daniel Allcock
Institution:Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Abstract:We define the braid groups of a two-dimensional orbifold and introduce conventions for drawing braid pictures. We use these to realize the Artin groups associated to the spherical Coxeter diagrams $A_n$, $B_n=C_n$ and $D_n$ and the affine diagrams $\tilde{A}_n$, $\tilde{B}_n$, $\tilde{C}_n$ and $\tilde{D}_n$ as subgroups of the braid groups of various simple orbifolds. The cases $D_n$, $\tilde{B}_n$, $\tilde{C}_n$ and $\tilde{D}_n$ are new. In each case the Artin group is a normal subgroup with abelian quotient; in all cases except $\tilde{A}_n$ the quotient is finite. We also illustrate the value of our braid calculus by giving a picture-proof of the basic properties of the Garside element of an Artin group of type $D_n$.

Keywords:Braid group  Artin group  orbifold  Garside element
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