Hi,

i have read a statement from Sossinsky and Prasolov' s book "Knots, Lİnks, Braids and 3-Manifold", it says that two reduced word represent isotopic braids if and only if they have the same reduced form, page 54. My claim is that this statement is not true: take $b_2b_1b_2^{-1}b_3^{-1}b_3^{-1}$ and $b_3^{-1}b_2b_3b_2b_1b_2^{-1}b_2^{-1}b_3{-1}b_2^{-1}$. b_3^{-1}b_2b_3b_2b_1b_2^{-1}b_2^{-1}b_3^{-1}b_2^{-1}$. They represent isotopic braids but they are not the same. What is the correction of this statement?

zati

Hi,

i have read a statement from Sossinsky and Prasolov' s book "Knots, Lİnks, Braids and 3-Manifold", it says that two reduced word represent isotopic braids if and only if they have the same reduced form, page 54. My claim is that this statement is not true: take $b_2b_1b_2^{-1}b_3^{-1}b_3^{-1}$ and $b_3^{-1}b_2b_3b_2b_1b_2^{-1}b_2^{-1}b_3{-1}b_2^{-1}$. They represent isotopic braids but they are not the same. What is the correction of this statement?

zati