SPLITTINGS FOR THE BRAID-PERMUTATION GROUP

The braid-permutation group is a group of welded braids which is the extension of Artin's braid groups by the symmetric groups. It is also described as a subgroup of the automorphism group of a free group. We also show that the plus-construction of the classifying space of the infinite braid-permutation group has the following two types of splittings BBP(equation omitted) B∑(equation omitted) $\times$ X, BBP(equation omitted) B $^{＋}$$\times$ Y＝S$^1$$\times$Y, where X, Y are some spaces.