Units of the string link monoids
Volume 103 / 2014
Banach Center Publications 103 (2014), 233-240
MSC: 57M25, 20F36.
DOI: 10.4064/bc103-0-9
Abstract
We show that the map obtained by viewing a geometric (i.e. representative) braid as a string link induces an isomorphism of the $n$-strand braid group onto the group of units of the $n$-strand string link monoid.
