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Properties of Closed 3-Braids and Braid Representations of Links pp 5–14Cite as

Preliminaries, Basic Definitions, and Conventions

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Basic concepts that appear throughout the monograph are summarized here. ‘W.l.o. g.’ will abbreviate ‘without loss of generality’; ‘r.h.s.’ will stand for ‘right hand-side’. The notations ‘: = ’ and ‘ =: ’ indicate definition, with the defined symbol standing on the hand-side of the colon.

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Stoimenow, A. (2017). Preliminaries, Basic Definitions, and Conventions. 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_2

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