Homotopy string links over surfaces
In his 1947 work "Theory of Braids" Emil Artin asked whether the braid group remained unchanged when one considered classes of braids under linkhomotopy, allowing each strand of a braid to pass through itself but not through other strands. We generalize Artin's question to string link...
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University of British Columbia
2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2747 |