The Burau representation of the braid group ๐ต_{๐} is unfaithful for large ๐
The Burau representation of the braid group ๐ต_{๐} is unfaithful for large ๐
Two fundamental theorems of classical knot theory, by J. Alexander, are that every knot is a closed braid, and second, that a certain procedure (see [1,2] for both results) assigns to each knot K a polynomial A(K) in T, which only depends on the topological type of the knot once โฆ