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math.GR2011★ 9 cited
Generating random braids
Volker Gebhardt, Juan González-Meneses
We present an algorithm to generate positive braids of a given length as words in Artin generators with a uniform probability. The complexity of this algorithm is polynomial in the…
math.GT2011★ 15 cited
Finite index subgroups of mapping class groups
Luis Paris, Jon A Berrick, Volker Gebhardt
Let and , and let be the mapping class group of a surface of genus with boundary components. We prove that cont…