We classify 3-braid links which are amphicheiral as unoriented links, including a new proof of Birman- Menasco’s result for the (orientedly) amphicheiral 3-braid links. Then we classify the partially invertible 3-braid links.
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author = {Alexander Stoimenov},
title = {The classification of partially symmetric 3-braid links},
journal = {Open Mathematics},
volume = {13},
year = {2015},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.doi-10_1515_math-2015-0043}
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Alexander Stoimenov. The classification of partially symmetric 3-braid links. Open Mathematics, Tome 13 (2015) . http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.doi-10_1515_math-2015-0043/
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