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Braid groups and Kazhdan's property (T)

In Nica's dissertation Group actions on median spaces, we can read the following assertion: Braid groups do not contain infinite subgroups satisfying Kazhdan's property (T). This is used in order to ...
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Explicit description (=pictures!) of elements in $Mod_g[k]$?

This question is probably obvious to experts but I couldn't find the answer in the literature... Background: Consider the mapping class group $Mod_g$ of the closed genus $g$ surface. There are many ...