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Artin automorphism of a braid (xi​↦xi​xi+1​xi−1​,xi+1​↦xi​)

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A positive elementary braid acts on the free group of punctured-disk meridians by the displayed substitution, fixing other generators. The inverse sends xi​ to xi+1​ and xi+1​ to xi+1−1​xi​xi+1​. Applying Seifert-van Kampen theorem at the crossings and closing the braid gives the knot-complement presentation ⟨xi​∣xi​=ϕ(xi​)⟩.

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