Algebraic & Geometric Topology Volume 25, issue 1 (2025)

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On positive braids, monodromy groups and framings

Livio Ferretti

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 25 (2025) 161–205

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2025.25.161

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