Image of the Burau representation at d-th roots of unity.

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2014.179.3.4zbMATH Open1345.20051arXiv1205.6543OpenAlexW3105339840MaRDI QIDQ2453589FDOQ2453589

Authors: T. N. Venkataramana 

Publication date: 10 June 2014

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that the image of the Full braid group $B_{n+1}$ on $n+1$ strands under the Burau representation, evaluated at a primitive $d$-th root of unity is arithmetic provided $ngeqd$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6543

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zbMATH Keywords

Burau representationbraid groupsarithmetic groupsmonodromy actions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30)

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