The homology of the Milnor fiber for classical braid groups
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Let (W, S) be a Coxeter system, with W a finite, irreducible Coxeter group and let GW be the associated Artin group (see Bourbaki [5] for an introduction to Coxeter groups and their classifications and Brieskorn and Saito [6] for relations between Coxeter groups and Artin groups ). The main objects of study of this paper are the Artin groups of type An . We recall that the Artin group GAn is the same as the classical braid group (see Artin [3] for the original definition and Birman [4] for more details) on n + 1 strands Br(n + 1) and a standard presentation is given by:
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