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Non-realizability of the pure braid group as area-preserving homeomorphisms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2020
Abstract
Let $\operatorname{Homeo}_{+}(D_{n}^{2})$ be the group of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of
$D^{2}$ fixing the boundary pointwise and
$n$ marked points as a set. The Nielsen realization problem for the braid group asks whether the natural projection
$p_{n}:\operatorname{Homeo}_{+}(D_{n}^{2})\rightarrow B_{n}:=\unicode[STIX]{x1D70B}_{0}(\operatorname{Homeo}_{+}(D_{n}^{2}))$ has a section over subgroups of
$B_{n}$. All of the previous methods use either torsion or Thurston stability, which do not apply to the pure braid group
$PB_{n}$, the subgroup of
$B_{n}$ that fixes
$n$ marked points pointwise. In this paper, we show that the pure braid group has no realization inside the area-preserving homeomorphisms using rotation numbers.
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