On the Burau representation of B4 modulo p

DOI10.2478/9788366675476-005MaRDI QIDQ6181554zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 3 January 2024

Published in TBILISI - MATHEMATICS (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11730

zbMATH Keywords

braidsBurau representation

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Representations of groups as automorphism groups of algebraic systems (20F29) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

Abstract: The problem of faithfulness of the (reduced) Burau representation for $n=4$ is known to be equivalent to the problem of whether certain two matrices $A$ and $B$ generate a free group of rank two. It is known that $A^3$ and $B^3$ generate a free group of rank two cite{9}, cite{10}, cite{4}. We prove that they also generate a free group when considered as matrices over the $mathbb{Z}_p[t,t^{-1}]$ for any integer $p>1$.

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