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THREE-DIMENSIONAL REALIZATIONS OF BRAIDS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 1999
Abstract
Consider a standard braid diagram as a three-dimensional figure viewed from the top; what happens when this figure is looked at from the side? Then a new braid can be obtained, and studying the connection between the initial braid and the derived braid so obtained provides both a new simple proof for the existence of the right greedy normal form of positive braids and a geometrical interpretation for the automatic structure of the braid groups.
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- The London Mathematical Society 1999
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