Studying Links Via Closed Braids. V: The Unlink

DOI10.2307/2153953MaRDI QIDQ3989199zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joan Birman, 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

\(n\)-braid representative of the trivial \(r\)- component linkclosed braidMarkov move

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

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