# Concordance group and stable commutator length in braid groups

Source: [Concordance group and stable commutator length in braid groups](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa52621e209131ce97a68e>)

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Authors: Michael Brandenbursky, Jarek K\\k{e}dra

Published: 2014-02-13T15:59:02.000Z

## Abstract

We define a quasihomomorphism from braid groups to the concordance group of knots and examine its properties and consequences of its existence. In particular, we provide a relation between the stable four ball genus in the concordance group and the stable commutator length in braid groups, and produce examples of infinite families of concordance classes of knots with uniformly bounded four ball genus. We also provide applications to the geometry of the infinite braid group. In particular, we show that its commutator subgroup admits a stably unbounded conjugation invariant norm. This answers an open problem posed by Burago, Ivanov and Polterovich.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3191>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.3191.pdf>)