Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4585837 | Journal of Algebra | 2012 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
We describe a new algorithm which for each braid returns a quasi-geodesic σ-definite word representative, defined as a braid word in which the generator σi with maximal index i appears either only positively or only negatively.
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