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Closed braids which are not prime knots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

H. R. Morton
H. R. Morton
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University of Liverpool
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An element B ∈ Bn, the braid group on n strings, which can be written as

in terms of the standard generators of Bn is called a split braid. It is easy to see that the resulting closed braid is the connected sum of the closed braids Ĉ and on k + 1 and n − k strings respectively (figure 1).

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 86 , Issue 3 , November 1979 , pp. 421 - 426
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1979

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