Laver's well-order conjecture for Hurwitz-action domains

Let (S,)(S, \mathbin{*}) be a left-cancellative LD-system, let BnB_n be the braid group on nn strands, and let DS(a)={βBnaβ is defined}D_S(\vec a)=\{\beta\in B_n\mid \vec a\mathbin{\scriptscriptstyle\bullet}\beta\text{ is defined}\} be the domain of the partial Hurwitz action on a sequence aSn\vec a\in S^n. A free LD-system is an LD-system freely generated by its specified generators. Laver's conjecture. If (S,)(S,\mathbin{*}) is a free LD-system, the restriction of the D-ordering to every family of the form DS(a)D_S(\vec a) is a well-order. This extends Laver's well-order result for positive braids; the conjecture remains open when a\vec a has length 33 or more.

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Patrick Dehornoy, “Laver's results and low-dimensional topology”, arXiv:1401.3302 (2014).

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