A Laundry Surface for Braids
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
Laundry surfaces for closed braid diagrams are presented. It is shown that braid diagrams are characterized by linking matrices obtained by lifting cycles from these surfaces. Oriented link types are then characterized by equivalence classes of linking matrices. Similar equivalence classes can be composed of Gordon and Litherland forms or Seifert matrices.
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@article{arxiv.math/0609148,
title = {A Laundry Surface for Braids},
author = {Victor A. Nicholson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0609148},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
9 pages, 9 figures, corrected typos