Studying Links Via Closed Braids. V: The Unlink

DOI10.2307/2153953zbMath0758.57005OpenAlexW4247693291MaRDI QIDQ3989199

Joan S. Birman, William W. Menasco

Publication date: 28 June 1992

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2153953

zbMATH Keywords

closed braid\(n\)-braid representative of the trivial \(r\)- component linkMarkov move

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