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Knots in the Triangle (Knots kNot in Washington)
April 29 - May 1, 2016
North Carolina State University
Raleigh NC, USA

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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On The Braid Index of Alternating Braids
by
Pengyu Liu
UNC Charlotte
Coauthors: Yuanan Diao and Gabor Hetyei

We define that a braid diagram is alternating if its closure is an alternating link diagram and an oriented link L is an alternating braid on n strands, if L can be represented by a reduced alternating braid diagram on n strands. In this talk, we show that the braid index of this class of alternating links, alternating braids on n strands, is exactly n.

Date received: March 29, 2016

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