Revisiting matrix representations of the braid group

DOI10.1080/03081088708817788MaRDI QIDQ3027231zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Seymour Lipschutz

Publication date 1987

Published in Linear and Multilinear Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03081088708817788

zbMATH Keywords

Artin braid groupBurau representationfaithfulness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

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• On a finite matrix representation of the braid group
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• Über Zopfgruppen und gleichsinnig verdrillte Verkettungen

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