Stellar Braiding
Abstract
We construct a one-dimensional deformation retract of the unordered k-point configuration space of a star S. This retract suggests an explicit set of free generators Betak for the corresponding braid group of the star Bk and shows that the natural map from Bk-1 to Bk sends Betak-1 to Betak injectively.
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