Abstract: | We prove relations in the braid group that generalize the relations of the formaba=bab. These relations are obtained by means of the generalization to the higher Bruhat orders of the well-known relation between
the decompositions of the element of maximal length in the Weyl groupA
n−1
and some specific linear orders on the system of positive roots ofA
n−1
.
Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 66, No. 6, pp. 840–848, December, 1999. |