The word problem and consequences for the braid groups and mapping class groups of the $2$-sphere
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- © Copyright 1968 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 131 (1968), 277-296
- MSC: Primary 20.10; Secondary 55.00
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1968-0231894-7
- MathSciNet review: 0231894