Braids as Fundamental Groups of Configuration Spaces — Examples
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1 · Prerequisites
Abstract Algebra
- Binary Operations, Monoids, Groups and Subgroups
- Cosets, Index and Lagrange's Theorem
- Divisibility, Euclidean Domains, Principal Ideal Domains and Unique Factorisation
- Group Actions, Orbits, Stabilisers and Cayley's Theorem
- Group Homomorphisms and the Isomorphism Theorems
- Ideals, Quotient Rings and the Isomorphism Theorems for Rings
- Normal Subgroups and Quotient Groups
- Polynomial Rings, the Division Algorithm and Roots
- Rings, Subrings, Integral Domains and Fields
- Semidirect Products, Automorphism Groups and Split Extensions
- Simple Field Extensions and the Construction of the Complex Numbers
Braid Groups
Complex Analysis
Coxeter Groups
Differential Geometry
Functional Analysis
Linear Algebra
Real Analysis
- Absolute and Conditional Convergence; Rearrangement; Products
- Construction of the Real Numbers via Cauchy Sequences
- Construction of the Real Numbers via Dedekind Cuts
- Continuity, IVT, EVT, and Uniform Continuity
- Countability and Uncountability
- Foundations of the Real Numbers for Analysis
- Fundamental Trigonometric Identities
- Limits of Real Functions
- limsup, liminf, and Subsequential Limits
- Monotone Functions, Discontinuities, and Continuity Sets
- Monotone Sequences, Bolzano-Weierstrass, and Cauchy Completeness
- Power Series and Real-Analytic Functions
- Properties of the Integral and the Working FTC
- Rⁿ as a Normed Space; Vector-Valued Functions
- Roots, Rational Powers, and Classical Inequalities
- Sequences and Limits
- Sequences and Series of Functions; Uniform Convergence
- Series: Convergence and the Nonnegative Tests
- Sine, Cosine, and the Definition of Pi
- Suprema and Infima
- The Cantor Set, Baire Category, and Measure Zero in ℝ
- The Complex Exponential and Euler's Formula
- The Derivative and the Mean Value Theorems
- The Exponential Function
- The Riemann Integral: Definition and Integrability
- The Total Derivative in ℝᵐ → ℝⁿ
- Topology of ℝ
Set Theory
Topology
- Classification of Covering Spaces
- Compactness
- Compactness in Metric Spaces
- Completeness, Completion, and Uniform Continuity
- Connectedness
- Countability Axioms and Cardinal Functions
- Covering Spaces and Lifting
- Hereditary and Productive Behaviour of the Separation Axioms
- Homotopy and Homotopy Equivalence
- Metric Spaces
- Partitions of Unity and Paracompactness
- Separation Axioms: the Hierarchy
- Subspaces, Products, and Quotients
- The Fundamental Group
- The Topology of Euclidean Space
- Topological Spaces and Continuity
2 · Logical flowchart
3 · Items
Example
A half-circle configuration loop traces an elementary half twist
Example
A pure two-strand full twist as an ordered loop
Counterexample
An exchange closes only after forgetting labels
Counterexample
An embedded height-folded arc has no configuration-loop slices
Sources
- Juan Gonzalez-Meneses, Basic results on braid groups, §1.5, printed pp. 7–8, Figure 2
- Juan Gonzalez-Meneses, Basic results on braid groups, §1.2, printed pp. 4–5
- Juan Gonzalez-Meneses, Basic results on braid groups, §1.5, Figure 2, printed pp. 7–8
- Juan Gonzalez-Meneses, Basic results on braid groups, §§1.2–1.3, printed pp. 4–5