الصفحة 1
الصفحة 1
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Braid Groups

Braids and braid groups have been at the heart of mathematical development over the last two decades. Braids play an important role in diverse areas of mathematics and theoretical physics. The special beauty of the theory of braids stems from their attractive geometric nature and their close relations to other fundamental geometric objects, such as knots, links, mapping class groups of surfaces, and configuration spaces. In this presentation the authors thoroughly examine various aspects of the theory of braids, starting from basic definitions and then moving to more recent results. The advanced topics cover the Burau and the Lawrence--Krammer--Bigelow representations of the braid groups, the Alexander--Conway and Jones link polynomials, connections with the representation theory of the Iwahori--Hecke algebras, and the Garside structure and orderability of the braid groups.

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Algèbre, Chapitres 1 à 3 = Algebra, Chapters 1 to 3

To do algebra is essentially to calculate, that is to say to perform, on elements of a set, (<algebraic operations n, the best-known example of which is provided by the (<four rules)) of elementary arithmetic. This is not the place to retrace the slow process of progressive abstraction by which the notion of algebraic operation, initially restricted to natural integers and to measurable quantities, gradually widened its field, as it grew. at the same time generalized the notion of ((number O, until, going beyond the latter, it came to apply to elements which no longer had any character ((numeric)>, for example to permutations of a - seems (see Historical Note in chap. 1).

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