Braid Groups

DOI10.1007/978-0-387-68548-9zbMath1208.20041OpenAlexW4241775545MaRDI QIDQ5459446

Christian Kassel, Vladimir G. Turaev

Publication date: 28 April 2008

Published in: Graduate Texts in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68548-9

zbMATH Keywords

Temperley-Lieb algebras braid groups links braids Burau representation Dehn twists Young diagrams Iwahori-Hecke algebras Jones polynomials Garside monoids Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow representation Jones-Conway polynomials Alexander-Conway polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hecke algebras and their representations (20C08) Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems (20M05) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to group theory (20-02)

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