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%S 0,1,0,5,0,18,0,57,0,183,0,604,0,2047,0,7145,0,25471,0,92193
%N Number of n-crossing 2 component links with alternating braids of 3 strands.
%D K. Murasugi and B. J. Kurpita, A Study of Braids, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1999), pp. 127-166
%H T. A. Gittings, <a href="http://www.arXiv.org/abs/math.GT/0401051">Minimum braids: a complete invariant of knots and links</a>.
%H V. F. R. Jones, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/1971403">Hecke algebra representations of braid groups and link polynomials</a>, Ann. of Math., 126 (1987), pp. 335-388.
%Y Cf. A094029, A094030, A094032.
%K nonn,more
%O 4,4
%A _Thomas A. Gittings_, Apr 22 2004