An elementary fact about unlinked braid closures

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-34139-2_2MaRDI QIDQ2833029zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephan M. Wehrli, Elisenda Grigsby

Publication date 16 November 2016

Published in Association for Women in Mathematics Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0759

zbMATH Keywords

braidsHeegaard-Floer homologyKhovanov homology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Floer homology (57R58) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50)

Abstract: Let n be a positive integer. We provide a Khovanov homology proof of the following classical fact: If the closure of an n-strand braid is the n-component unlink, then the braid is trivial.

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