Braids and Self-Distributivity

by Patrick Dehornoy

Book Overview

The aim of this book is to present recently discovered connections between Artin's braid groups En and left self-distributive systems (also called LD- systems), which are sets equipped with a binary operation satisfying the left self-distributivity identity x(yz) = (xy)(xz). (LD) Such connections appeared in set theory in the 1980s and led to the discovery in 1991 of a left invariant linear order on the braid groups. Braids and self-distributivity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3034895682
• ISBN13: 9783034895682
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 623 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"