Conjugacy for positive permutation braids

Fundamenta Mathematicae

Volumn 188, Issue , 2005, Pages 155-166

  Morton, Hugh R ^b   Hadji, Richard J ^a  

^a University of Liverpool ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conjugacy; Cycles; Positive permutation braids

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644514996     PISSN: 00162736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4064/fm188-0-8     Document Type: Article

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