The n-th root of a braid is unique up to conjugacy
Abstract
We prove a conjecture due to Makanin: if a and b are elements of the Artin braid group Bn such that ak=bk for some nonzero integer k, then a and b are conjugate. The proof involves the Nielsen-Thurston classification of braids.
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