Syntactical Methods for Braids of Three Strands

Author: Burckel S.  

Publisher: Academic Press

ISSN: 0747-7171

Source: Journal of Symbolic Computation, Vol.31, Iss.5, 2001-05, pp. : 557-564

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Abstract

We investigate the three-strand positive braid monoid. We propose a syntactical linear time algorithm for the word problem, a nearly canonical rewriting system and the computation of the growth function.