2 papers
math.GT2004★ 3 cited
Braids: A Survey
Joan S. Birman, Tara E. Brendle
This article is about Artin's braid group and its role in knot theory. We set ourselves two goals: (i) to provide enough of the essential background so that our review would be acc…
math.GT2003
Every mapping class group is generated by 6 involutions
Tara E. Brendle, Benson Farb
Let Mod_{g,b} denote the mapping class group of a surface of genus g with b punctures. Feng Luo asked in a recent preprint if there is a universal upper bound, independent of genus…