Fixed points for positive permutation braids
Volume 216 / 2012
Fundamenta Mathematicae 216 (2012), 129-146
MSC: Primary 20F36; Secondary 37E15.
DOI: 10.4064/fm216-2-4
Abstract
Making use of the Nielsen fixed point theory, we study a conjugacy invariant of braids, which we call the level index function. We present a simple algorithm for computing it for positive permutation cyclic braids.
