Garside's Solution to the Conjugacy Problem in the Braid Group

Seminar series

Logic Seminar

Date

Fri, 20 Apr 2007
15:15

Location

Speaker

Tristram de Piro

Organisation

Camerino

I will discuss Garside's representation of elements of the braid group in terms of "half- twists" and the corresponding solution to the Conjugacy Problem, originally posed by Artin. If time permits, I will discuss some geometric implications of this result.