Author : Patrick Dehornoy
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783034884426
Braids and Self-Distributivity by Patrick Dehornoy Pdf
This is the award-winning monograph of the Sunyer i Balaguer Prize 1999. The book presents recently discovered connections between Artin’s braid groups and left self-distributive systems, which are sets equipped with a binary operation satisfying the identity x(yz) = (xy)(xz). Although not a comprehensive course, the exposition is self-contained, and many basic results are established. In particular, the first chapters include a thorough algebraic study of Artin’s braid groups.