Baskets, Staircases and Sutured Khovanov Homology
Thesis advisor: Julia E. Grigsby === We use the Birman-Ko-Lee presentation of the braid group to show that all closures of strongly quasipositive braids whose normal form contains a positive power of the dual Garside element δ are fibered. We classify links which admit such a braid representative in...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Others |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boston College
2017
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108149 |