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A NONDEGENERATE EXCHANGE MOVE ALWAYS PRODUCES INFINITELY MANY NONCONJUGATE BRAIDS

Part of: Low-dimensional topology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2019

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TETSUYA ITO*
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Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University, Kyoto606-8502, Japan email tetitoh@math.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

We show that if a link $L$ has a closed $n$-braid representative admitting a nondegenerate exchange move, an exchange move that does not obviously preserve the conjugacy class, $L$ has infinitely many nonconjugate closed $n$-braid representatives.

MSC classification

Primary: 57M25: Knots and links in $S^3$
Secondary: 57M27: Invariants of knots and 3-manifolds
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Nagoya Mathematical Journal , Volume 243 , September 2021 , pp. 205 - 208
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© 2019 Foundation Nagoya Mathematical Journal

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