A NONDEGENERATE EXCHANGE MOVE ALWAYS PRODUCES INFINITELY MANY NONCONJUGATE BRAIDS
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We show that if a link $L$ has a closed $n$ -braid representative admitting a nondegenerate exchange move, an exchange move that does not obviously preserve the conjugacy class, $L$ has infinitely many nonconjugate closed $n$ -braid representatives.
2015 ◽
Vol 43
(8)
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pp. 3365-3371
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