On injectivity of Cohen-Wu homomorphism

Abstract

We give a new elementary proof of the theorem that a natural map from Milnor's construction F[S1] to the simplicial group AP of pure braids is injective. Our approach is group-theoretic and does not rely on Lie algebras.

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