Obstructions to trivializing a knot

DOI10.1007/BF02771530MaRDI QIDQ1881738zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Joan Birman, John Atwell Moody

Publication date 15 October 2004

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0206283

zbMATH Keywords

knotsbraidsrepresentations of braid groupsexchange-reducing moves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

Abstract: The recent proof by Bigelow and Krammer that the braid groups are linear opens the possibility of applications to the study of knots and links. It was proved by the first author and Menasco that any closed braid representative of the unknot can be systematically simplified to a round planar circle by a sequence of exchange moves and reducing moves. In this paper we establish connections between the faithfulness of the Krammer-Lawrence representation and the problem of recognizing when the conjugacy class of a closed braid admits an exchange move or a reducing move.

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