Faithfulness of the Lawrence representation of braid groups
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The Lawrence representation Ln,m is a family of homological representation of the braid group Bn, 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 m ≥ 2.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005