On Belk’s classifying space for Thompson’s group F
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Lucas Sabalka
Abstract
The space of configurations of n ordered points in the plane serves as a classifying space for the pure braid group
Funding source: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Award Identifier / Grant number: SFB 701
Award Identifier / Grant number: SFB 878
Funding statement: The second author was supported by the SFB 701 in Bielefeld and SFB 878 in Münster during the course of this work.
Acknowledgements
The first author thanks Keith Jones for the discussions that led to this project. The second author thanks Kai-Uwe Bux and Stefan Witzel for helpful discussions and suggestions. We are also grateful to Jim Belk and Ross Geoghegan for helpful conversations. Finally, we wish to thank two anonymous referees: the first for catching a critical error in a previous version of this paper, and the second for a thorough reading of the current version.
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