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Ulmo
Apr27-04, 01:38 PM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>The following website talks about the group theory of braids.\n\nhttp://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/braids/node4.html\n\nAre there braids analogous to the groups of particle physics such as\nU(1), SU(2), SU(3), SU(3) x SU(2) x SU(3), SU(5), SO(10), E_8 x E_8,\netc?\n\nDavid\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form">&nbsp;&nbsp;View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>The following website talks about the group theory of braids.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/braids/node4.html

Are there braids analogous to the groups of particle physics such as
U(1), SU(2), SU(3), SU(3) x SU(2) x SU(3), SU(5), SO(10), E_8 x E_8,
etc?

David