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Holonomic and Legendrian parametrizations of knots
Joan S. Birman, Nancy C. Wrinkle
Let be a generic map. We may use to define a new map by , and if is an embedding then the image of…
math.GT1998
Studying surfaces via closed braids
Joan S. Birman, Elizabeth Finkelstein
This is a review article on the Bennequin-Birman-Menasco machinery for studying embedded incompressible surfaces in 3-space via their `braid foliations'. Two cases are investigated…
math.GT1998
Braided chord diagrams
Joan S. Birman, Rolland Trapp
The notion of a braided chord diagram is introduced and studied. An equivalence relation is given which identifies all braidings of a fixed chord diagram. It is shown that finite-t…