{
  "id": "2310.11836",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2023-10-18T09:41:46.000Z",
  "updated": "2023-10-18T09:41:46.000Z",
  "title": "Trefoils and hexafoils in 3-braids",
  "authors": [
    "Sebastian Baader",
    "Levi Ryffel"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages, 2 figures, comments welcome",
  "categories": [
    "math.GT"
  ],
  "abstract": "We determine the cobordism distance between all positive 3-braid links and connected sums of trefoil knots, up to a constant error. This may be seen as a reinterpretation of Coxeter's finiteness result on the braid group on three strands modulo third powers of the generators. We go on to explore the limits of Coxeter's result, and find the cobordism distance between three strand torus links and almost all connected sums of two strand torus links, up to a constant error.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2023-10-18T09:41:46.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "57K10",
      "20F36"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "strand torus links",
      "cobordism distance",
      "strands modulo third powers",
      "constant error",
      "connected sums"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}