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math.GR2009★ 3 cited
Nielsen-Thurston orderings and the space of braid orderings
Andres Navas, Bert Wiest
We study the topological space of left-orderings of the braid group, and its subspace of Nielsen-Thurston orderings. Our main result is that no Nielsen-Thurston ordering is isolate…
math.GT2009★ 3 cited
How to read the length of a braid from its curve diagram
Bert Wiest
We prove that the Garside length a braid is equal to a winding-number type invariant of the curve diagram of the braid.