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This chapter introduces the theory of braids. It explains how a knot diagram can always be expressed as the closure of a braid. Knot equivalence is then transformed into equivalence of closed braids under the braid moves and the Markov moves.
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Jackson, D.M., Moffatt, I. (2019). Braids and the Braid Group. In: An Introduction to Quantum and Vassiliev Knot Invariants. CMS Books in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05213-3_4
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