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Braids

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Joan S. Birman and Anatoly Libgober, Editors

Publication: Contemporary Mathematics
Publication Year: 1988; Volume 78
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5088-6 (print); 978-0-8218-7666-4 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/078
MathSciNet review: 975074

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Articles

• K. Aomoto – A construction of integrable differential system associated with braid groups [MR 975075]
• Joan S. Birman – Mapping class groups of surfaces [MR 975076]
• E. Brieskorn – Automorphic sets and braids and singularities [MR 975077]
• Alan L. Carey and David E. Evans – The operator algebras of the two-dimensional Ising model [MR 975078]
• F. R. Cohen – Artin’s braid groups, classical homotopy theory, and sundry other curiosities [MR 975079]
• William D. Dunbar – Classification of solvorbifolds in dimension three. I [MR 975080]
• Michael Falk and Richard Randell – Pure braid groups and products of free groups [MR 975081]
• Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen – Polynomial covering maps [MR 975082]
• Yasutaka Ihara – Arithmetic analogues of braid groups and Galois representations [MR 975083]
• Bo Ju Jiang – Application of braids to fixed points of surface maps [MR 975084]
• Louis H. Kauffman – Statistical mechanics and the Jones polynomial [MR 975085]
• Paul Kluitmann – Hurwitz action and finite quotients of braid groups [MR 975086]
• Tsuyoshi Kobayashi – Heights of simple loops and pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms [MR 975087]
• Toshitake Kohno – Linear representations of braid groups and classical Yang-Baxter equations [MR 975088]
• G. I. Lehrer – A survey of Hecke algebras and the Artin braid groups [MR 975089]
• A. Libgober – On divisibility properties of braids associated with algebraic curves [MR 975090]
• W. B. R. Lickorish – The panorama of polynomials for knots, links and skeins [MR 975091]
• R. James Milgram and Peter Löffler – The structure of deleted symmetric products [MR 975092]
• B. Moishezon and M. Teicher – Braid group technique in complex geometry. I. Line arrangements in $\textbf {C}\textrm {P}^2$ [MR 975093]
• H. R. Morton – Problems [MR 975094]
• H. R. Morton – Polynomials from braids [MR 975095]
• H. R. Morton and P. Traczyk – The Jones polynomial of satellite links around mutants [MR 975096]
• Mutsuo Oka – On the deformation of certain type of algebraic varieties [MR 975097]
• Peter Orlik and Louis Solomon – Braids and discriminants [MR 975098]
• Józef H. Przytycki – $t_k$ moves on links [MR 975099]
• Lee Rudolph – Mutually braided open books and new invariants of fibered links [MR 975100]
• Mario Salvetti – Generalized braid groups and self-energy Feynman integrals [MR 975101]
• Bronislaw Wajnryb – Markov classes in certain finite symplectic representations of braid groups [MR 975102]
• R. F. Williams – The braid index of an algebraic link [MR 975103]
• David N. Yetter – Markov algebras [MR 975104]