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MARKOV THEOREM FOR TRANSVERSAL LINKS

S. YU. OREVKOV

Steklov Math. Institute, ul. Gubkina 8, Moscow, Russia

Laboratoire E. Picard, UFR MIG, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France

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V. V. SHEVCHISHIN

Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Fakultät für Mathematik, Universitätsstrasse 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218216503002846Cited by:34 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

It is shown that two braids represent transversally isotopic links if and only if one can pass from one braid to another by conjugations in braid groups, positive Markov moves, and their inverses.

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