Image of the Burau representation at d-th roots of unity

T. N. Venkataramana

Type: Article

Publication Date: 2014-02-20

Citations: 24

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2014.179.3.4

Abstract

We prove that the image of the Full braid group $B_{n+1}$ on $n+1$ strands under the Burau representation, evaluated at a primitive $d$-th root of unity is arithmetic provided $n\geq d$.

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