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Stabilization in the braid groups II: Transversal simplicity of knots
Joan S Birman, William W Menasco
The main result of this paper is a negative answer to the question: are all transversal knot types transversally simple? An explicit infinite family of examples is given of closed…
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Stabilization in the braid groups I: MTWS
Joan S Birman, William W Menasco
Choose any oriented link type X and closed braid representatives X[+], X[-] of X, where X[-] has minimal braid index among all closed braid representatives of X. The main result of…