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The volume of positive braid links

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2014

SEBASTIAN BAADER
SEBASTIAN BAADER*
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland. e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Based on recent work by Futer, Kalfagianni and Purcell, we prove that the volume of sufficiently complicated positive braid links is proportional to the signature defect Δσ = 2g−σ.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 157 , Issue 3 , November 2014 , pp. 543 - 545
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2014 

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