Braid collapsed to 2 distinguished points

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Is there a study of non crossing paths from point A to point B in 3-space? Could be braid theory but in that theory the strands don't all converge to the same point(s).

The idea is equivalent to taking an arbitrary braid and collapsing the distinguished points down to exactly 2 points.

With the quotient however, you'd lose the permutation structure that is an important characteristic of the braid group.