On the Combinatorics of Certain Garside Semigroups

In his dissertation, F.A. Garside provided a solution to the word and conjugacy problems in the braid group on n-strands, using a particular element that he called the fundamental word. Others have since defined fundamental words in the generalized setting of Artin groups, and even more recently in...

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Main Author: Cornwell, Christopher R.
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2006
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/457
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1456&context=etd