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Finite Representations of the braid group commutator subgroup

Dynamical Systems 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study the representations of the commutator subgroup K_{n} of the braid group B_{n} into a finite group . This is done through a symbolic dynamical system. Some experimental results enable us to compute the number of subgroups of K_{n} of a given (finite) index, and, as a by-product, to recover the well known fact that every representation of K_{n} into S_{r}, with n > r, must be trivial.

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@article{arxiv.0704.1914,
  title  = {Finite Representations of the braid group commutator subgroup},
  author = {Abdelouahab Arouche},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.1914},
  year   = {2007}
}