Stabilization in the braid groups (with applications to transverse knots)
Joan S. Birman and William W. Menasco
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This paper has been withdrawn and replaced by two other papers:
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\item {\it Stabilization in the braid groups I:MTWS}, published in Geometry and Topology {\bf 10}, 413-540, arXiv:math.GT/0310279, and 
\item {\it Stabilization in the braid groups II: Transversal simplicity of knots}, Geometry and Topology, to appear, arXiv:math,GT/0310280.
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Together they subsume the contents of the original version. 


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 This paper has been withdrawn and replaced by two other papers:

1. ``Stabilization in the braid groups I:MTWS", published in Geometry and Topology Volume 10, 413-540, arXiv:math.GT/0310279, and 

2. ``Stabilization in the braid groups II: Transversal simplicity of knots", Geometry and Topology, to appear, arXiv:math,GT/0310280.

Together they subsume the contents of the original version. 