Presentations of the inverse braid monoid

The inverse braid monoid script J SignB_n consists of n-string braids from which some subset of the strings has been deleted. Such partial braids may be composed by concatenation followed by the deletion of any incomplete strings, and this operation gives script J SignB_n the structure of an inverse monoid. We derive presentations of script J SignB _n by first using a groupoid presentation, and then deriving equivalent inverse monoid presentations. In particular, we offer a new derivation of the presentation for script J SignB_n that has been given by Easdown and Lavers. © World Scientific Publishing Company.