Braids, orderings and zero divisors

Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 837-841

  Rolfsen, Dale ^a   Zhu, Jun ^a  

^a School of Medicine   (Canada)

Author keywords

Braid; Generalized torsion; Group ring; Ordered group; Residually nilpotent

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032342788     PISSN: 02182165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218216598000425     Document Type: Article

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