On the Burau representation of B4

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2021.14.143MaRDI QIDQ2037258zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vasudha Bharathram, Joan Birman

Publication date 30 June 2021

Published in Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/involve.2021.14.143

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupBurau representationfree groupHeisenberg groupKlein 4-group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation theory of groups (20C99) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

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