Stabilization in the braid groups II: Transversal simplicity of knots

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The main result of this paper is a negative answer to the question: are all transversal knot types transversally simple? An explicit infinite family of examples is given of closed 3-braids that define transversal knot types that are not transversally simple. The method of proof is topological and indirect.
This is the version published by Geometry & Topology on 4 October 2006. Part I (arXiv:math/0310279) is also published in this volume

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