Abstract
Let \(n \in \mathbb {Z}^+\). We provide two short proofs of the following classical fact, one using Khovanov homology and one using Heegaard–Floer homology: if the closure of an n-strand braid \(\sigma \) is the n-component unlink, then \(\sigma \) is the trivial braid.
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