Braid groups are linear

DOI10.1090/S0894-0347-00-00361-1zbMath0988.20021arXivmath/0005038MaRDI QIDQ5890174

Stephen J. Bigelow

Publication date: 19 February 2001

Published in: Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0005038

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupsrepresentationslinear groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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