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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We construct a knot whose braid index is not detected by the Morton-Franks-Williams (MFW) inequality but is detected by a related KR-MFW ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Any 2-dimensional knot K can be presented in a braid form, and its braid index, Braid(K), is defined. For the connected sum K₁#K₂ of 2-knots ...