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arxiv: 1103.2510 · v1 · pith:YBEZBIGSnew · submitted 2011-03-13 · 🧮 math.GT

Exchange moves and braid representations of links

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We prove that under fairly general conditions an iterated exchange move gives infinitely many non-conjugate braids. As a consequence, every knot has infinitely many conjugacy classes of n-braid representations if and only if it has one admitting an exchange move.

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