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Around the Borromean link.

José María Montesinos Amilibia (2008)

RACSAM

This is a survey of some consequences of the fact that the fundamental group of the orbifold with singular set the Borromean link and isotropy cyclic of order 4 is a universal kleinian group.

Bipartite knots

Sergei Duzhin, Mikhail Shkolnikov (2014)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

We give a solution to a part of Problem 1.60 in Kirby's list of open problems in topology, thus answering in the positive the question raised in 1987 by J. Przytycki.

Braids and Signatures

Jean-Marc Gambaudo, Étienne Ghys (2005)

Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France

A braid defines a link which has a signature. This defines a map from the braid group to the integers which is not a homomorphism. We relate the homomorphism defect of this map to Meyer cocycle and Maslov class. We give some information about the global geometry of the gordian metric space.

Braids in Pau – An Introduction

Enrique Artal Bartolo, Vincent Florens (2011)

Annales mathématiques Blaise Pascal

In this work, we describe the historic links between the study of 3 -dimensional manifolds (specially knot theory) and the study of the topology of complex plane curves with a particular attention to the role of braid groups and Alexander-like invariants (torsions, different instances of Alexander polynomials). We finish with detailed computations in an example.

Brunnian links

Paul Gartside, Sina Greenwood (2007)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

A Brunnian link is a set of n linked loops such that every proper sublink is trivial. Simple Brunnian links have a natural algebraic representation. This is used to determine the form, length and number of minimal simple Brunnian links. Braids are used to investigate when two algebraic words represent equivalent simple Brunnian links that differ only in the arrangement of the component loops.

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