Twisted Alexander Polynomial for the Lawrence-krammer Representation
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In this paper, we prove that the twisted Alexander polynomial for the Lawrence-Krammer representation of the braid group B4 is trivial. This gives an answer for the problem whether the twisted Alexander polynomial for given faithful representations is always non-trivial.
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