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Braid representations of periodic links

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Sang Youl Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Taegu 702–701, Republic of Korea
Chan-Young Park
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Taegu 702–701, Republic of Korea
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Abstract

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In this paper, we study periodic braid representations of periodic links. It is shown that no 2-bridge non-fibred knot has a periodic braid representation and conditions under which periodic links are fibred are given. We give a construction of all periodic links over a fixed factor link.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1997

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