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Originating from the pioneering work of Alexander and Artin, braid theory has become intrinsically interwoven with knot theory, and over the years, braid representations of different types have been studied, many of them with motivation coming from fields outside of knot theory.
Braid representations of links are the main topic of this work. On the one hand, we will be particularly interested in the study of the link polynomials on braids. On the other hand, we will give closer attention to closures of 3-braids.
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Stoimenow, A. (2017). Introduction. In: Properties of Closed 3-Braids and Braid Representations of Links . SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68149-8_1
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