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  2. Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups - Wikipedia

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    Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups is a mathematical monograph on braid groups and their applications in low-dimensional topology.It was written by Joan Birman, based on lecture notes by James W. Cannon, [1] and published in 1974 by the Princeton University Press and University of Tokyo Press, as volume 82 of the book series Annals of Mathematics Studies.

  3. Box braids - Wikipedia

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    Box braids in Ethiopia American singer/actress Brandy Norwood with her signature [1] box braids. Box braids are a type of hair-braiding style that is predominantly popular among African people and the African diaspora. This type of hairstyle is a "protective style" (a style which can be worn for a long period of time to let natural hair grow ...

  4. Braid group - Wikipedia

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    The composition of the braids σ and τ is written as στ.. The set of all braids on four strands is denoted by .The above composition of braids is indeed a group operation. . The identity element is the braid consisting of four parallel horizontal strands, and the inverse of a braid consists of that braid which "undoes" whatever the first braid did, which is obtained by flipping a diagram ...

  5. Spin representation - Wikipedia

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    Spin representations can be analysed according to the following strategy: if S is a real spin representation of Spin(p, q), then its complexification is a complex spin representation of Spin(p, q); as a representation of so(p, q), it therefore extends to a complex representation of so(n, C).

  6. Temperley–Lieb algebra - Wikipedia

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    The diagram algebra for () is deduced from the diagram algebra for () by turning rectangles into cylinders. The algebra a T L n ( δ ) {\displaystyle aTL_{n}(\delta )} is infinite-dimensional because lines can wind around the cylinder.

  7. Potts model - Wikipedia

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    that is, the set of all possible strings where k+1 spins match up exactly to a given, specific set of values ξ 0, ..., ξ k. Explicit representations for the cylinder sets can be gotten by noting that the string of values corresponds to a q -adic number , however the natural topology of the q-adic numbers is finer than the above product topology.

  8. Spin structure - Wikipedia

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    When a manifold carries a spin C structure at all, the set of spin C structures forms an affine space. Moreover, the set of spin C structures has a free transitive action of H 2 (M, Z). Thus, spin C-structures correspond to elements of H 2 (M, Z) although not in a natural way.

  9. Braid statistics - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics and theoretical physics, braid statistics is a generalization of the spin statistics of bosons and fermions based on the concept of braid group.While for fermions (bosons) the corresponding statistics is associated to a phase gain of () under the exchange of identical particles, a particle with braid statistics leads to a rational fraction of under such exchange [1] [2] or even ...