Title: The Tits Conjecture and the Five String Braid Group
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Authors: Carl Droms, Jacques
Lewin and Herman Servatius
Reference: in Topology and Combinatorial Group Theory, Lecture Notes
in Math. #1440, Springer-Verlag, 48--51, 1990.
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Standard generators for the braid group and pure braid group.
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New generators for the pure braid group.
Abstract
It has been conjectured by Jaques Tits that all relations satisfied by
the squares of the generators in any Artin group are consequences of the
relations of commutativity satisfied by the generators. In this article,
we show that this conjecture is true for the 5-string braid group.
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