@inbook{9cd3eb18a5f64cdda94cbd477f9ac68c,
title = "An elementary fact about unlinked braid closures",
abstract = "Let n∈ Z+. We provide two short proofs of the following classical fact, one using Khovanov homology and one using Heegaard–Floer homology: if the closure of an n-strand braid σ is the n-component unlink, then σ is the trivial braid.",
keywords = "Braids, Heegaard–floer homology, Khovanov homology",
author = "Grigsby, {J. Elisenda} and Wehrli, {Stephan M.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-34139-2_2",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Association for Women in Mathematics Series",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "93--101",
booktitle = "Association for Women in Mathematics Series",
}