The cohomological-dimension conjecture for commutator subgroups of pure braid groups

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Let PnP_n be the pure braid group of the disc, and let [Pn,Pn][P_n,P_n] denote its commutator subgroup. The cohomological-dimension conjecture asserts that

cd([Pn,Pn])=n2.\operatorname{cd}([P_n,P_n])=n-2.

This value would make the lower bound in the disc case of the topological-complexity theorem equal to 2n32n-3, substantially narrowing the possible values of \TC(C(D,n))\TC(C(D,n)). The paper presents this as an expectation rather than a proved result.

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Andrea Bianchi and David Recio-Mitter, “Topological complexity of unordered configuration spaces of surfaces”, arXiv:1712.07068 (2018).

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