Rings of Fricke characters and automorphism groups of free groups

DOI10.1007/BF01214715zbMath0433.20033OpenAlexW2053735993MaRDI QIDQ1139129

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/172903

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groups of free groups outer automorphisms of free groups representations of braid groups rings of Fricke characters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Free nonabelian groups (20E05)

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