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Brunnian braids and some of their generalizations

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

We use a variation on the commutator collection process to characterize those pure braids which become trivial when any one strand is deleted, or, more generally, those pure braids which become trivial when all the strands in any one of a list of sets of strands is deleted.

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@article{arxiv.math/9907072,
  title  = {Brunnian braids and some of their generalizations},
  author = {Theodore Stanford},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9907072},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures