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NEWLINENEWLINEThis result still holds when we consider $\\mathcal{M}\\mathrm{od}(\\Sigma_{g,b}, \\partial \\Sigma_{g,b})$ instead of $\\mathcal{PM}\\mathrm{od}(\\Sigma_{g,b})$. \\par It is possible to characterize the faithfulness of the geometric representation of $B_n$. Theorem 3 proves that if $n \\geq 6$ and $\\Sigma_{g,b}$ a surface with $g \\leq n/2$ and $\\rho$ be a homomorphism from $B_n$ to $\\mathcal{M}\\mathrm{od}(\\Sigma_{g,b}, \\partial \\Sigma_{g,b})$ or to $\\mathcal{PM}\\mathrm{od}(\\Sigma_{g,b})$, then NEWLINENEWLINE\\begin{itemize} \\item[(i)] The homomorphism $\\rho : B_n \\to \\mathcal{M}\\mathrm{od}(\\Sigma_{g,b}, \\partial \\Sigma_{g,b})$ is injective if and only if it is a transvection of a monodromy homomorphism such that the boundary components of $\\Sigma(\\rho)$ do not bound any disk in $\\Sigma$. \\item[(ii)] The homomorphism $\\rho : B_n \\to \\mathcal{PM}\\mathrm{od}(\\Sigma_{g,b})$ is injective if and only if it is a transvection of a monodromy homomorphism such that boundary components of $\\Sigma(\\rho)$ do not bound any disk in $\\Sigma_{g,b}$ and at least one boundary component of $\\Sigma(\\rho)$ is not isotopic to any boundary component of $\\Sigma_{g,b}$. \\end{itemize}NEWLINENEWLINEFor four families of groups: the braid groups $B_n$ for $n \\geq 6$, the Artin groups of type $D_n$ for all $n \\geq 6$, the mapping class groups $\\mathcal{PM}\\mathrm{od}(\\Sigma_{g,b})$ and $\\mathcal{M}\\mathrm{od}(\\Sigma_{g,b}, \\partial \\Sigma_{g,b})$, for $g \\geq 2$ and $b \\geq 0$, the author describes the structure of the sets of the endomorphisms of these groups, their automorphisms and their outer automorphism groups. 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