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Braid groups are linear

Authors :
Stephen Bigelow
Source :
Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 14:471-486
Publication Year :
2000
Publisher :
American Mathematical Society (AMS), 2000.

Abstract

The braid group B n B_n can be defined as the mapping class group of the n n -punctured disk. A group is said to be linear if it admits a faithful representation into a group of matrices over R \mathbf R . Recently Daan Krammer has shown that a certain representation of the braid groups is faithful for the case n = 4 n=4 . In this paper, we show that it is faithful for all n n .

Details

ISSN :
10886834 and 08940347
Volume :
14
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Journal of the American Mathematical Society
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........bc0514e22309787407d88627b0a46013
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1090/s0894-0347-00-00361-1