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Maypole Dance of Braid Like Groups (2009)
Over the weekend I attended a May Day party thrown by one of my colleagues. During the party they had a traditional maypole dance. An example of a maypole dance is shown at left. A maypole is a tal…
A maypole is a tall pole with colorful ribbons attached to the top that are fanned out in a cone shape. As this is happening the ribbons wind around the pole, making a decorative pattern, such as those shown below. Let’s call the new generator ; corresponds to the motion in which for all , the th strand moves to the st place (mod ).
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