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In the previous chapter, we discussed the braid group for the surfaces §2 and ℙ2. The methods used were rather ad hoc, looking at each case separately. To try and establish the braid group for the more general case of manifolds in dimensions greater than or equal to 2, we need a more methodical approach. Such an approach exists and has been developed in [FoN] and [FaV]. Somewhat unexpectedly, this approach allows us to apply braid theory to the solvability of algebraic equations with complex variables, this we will discuss in Section 2.
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Murasugi, K., Kurpita, B.I. (1999). Algebraic equations. In: A Study of Braids. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 484. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9319-9_12
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