REPRESENTING BRAIDS BY AUTOMORPHISMS

DOI10.1142/S0218196701000760zbMATH Open1024.20036arXivmath/0203167MaRDI QIDQ4786306FDOQ4786306

Authors: Vladimir Shpilrain 

Publication date: 15 December 2002

Published in: International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Based on a normal form for braid group elements suggested by Dehornoy, we prove several representations of braid groups by automorphisms of a free group to be faithful. This includes a simple proof of the standard Artin's representation being faithful.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0203167

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zbMATH Keywords

normal formsArtin representationbraid groupsrepresentations by automorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

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