Image of the Burau Representation at $d$-th Roots of unity
Group Theory
2015-03-31 v3
Abstract
We prove that the image of the Full braid group on strands under the Burau representation, evaluated at a primitive -th root of unity is arithmetic provided .
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@article{arxiv.1205.6543,
title = {Image of the Burau Representation at $d$-th Roots of unity},
author = {Tyakal N. Venkataramana},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.6543},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To appear in Annals of Mathematics. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1204.4778