Syntactical Methods for Braids of Three Strands . Syntactical Methods for Braids of Three Strands
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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. Mathematics Subjects Classi cation : 20F36, 20F10, 68R15.
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