Faithfulness of the Lawrence representation of braid groups

arXivmath/0509074MaRDI QIDQ6475971FDOQ6475971

Authors: Hao Zheng 

Publication date: 3 September 2005

Abstract: The Lawrence representation $L_{n,m}$ is a family of homological representation of the braid group $B_n$, which specializes to the reduced Burau and the Lawrence-Krammer representation when $m$ is 1 and 2. In this article we show that the Lawrence representation is faithful for $mgeq2$.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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