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Threading knot diagrams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

H. R. Morton
H. R. Morton
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Department of Pure Mathematics, University of LiverpoolL69 3BX
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Alexander [1] showed that an oriented link K in S3 can always be represented as a closed braid. Later Markov [5] described (without full details) how any two such representations of K are related. In her book [3], Birman gives an extensive description, with a detailed combinatorial proof of both these results.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 99 , Issue 2 , March 1986 , pp. 247 - 260
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1986

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