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Questions about mathematics which don't fall into the other arXiv categories. If you have a general question about mathematics but it is not research level, it's off-topic but it might be welcomed on Mathematics Stack Exchange.

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Conceptual reason why the sign of a permutation is well-defined?

Draw a braid on $n$ strings sloppily, so that no three strings pass through the same point. Convince yourself that the parity of the number of crossings is the same in every other drawing of the sam …
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