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Braids inside the Birman-Wenzl-Murakami algebra

Group Theory 2009-11-12 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

We determine the Zariski closure of the representations of the braid groups that factorize through the Birman-Wenzl-Murakami algebra, for generic values of the parameters α,s\alpha,s. For α,s\alpha,s of modulus 1 and close to 1, we prove that these representations are unitarizable, thus deducing the topological closure of the image when in addition α,s\alpha,s are algebraically independent.

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@article{arxiv.0911.2188,
  title  = {Braids inside the Birman-Wenzl-Murakami algebra},
  author = {Ivan Marin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.2188},
  year   = {2009}
}
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