Automorphismen nilpotenter proendlicher Gruppen.
In the present paper, we will show that the set of minimal elements of a full affine semigroup contains a free basis of the group generated by in . This will be applied to the study of the group for a semilocal ring .
These are Lecture Notes of a course given by the author at the French-Spanish School Tresses in Pau, held in Pau (France) in October 2009. It is basically an introduction to distinct approaches and techniques that can be used to show results in braid groups. Using these techniques we provide several proofs of well known results in braid groups, namely the correctness of Artin’s presentation, that the braid group is torsion free, or that its center is generated by the full twist. We also recall some...