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Extending representations of braid groups to the automorphism groups of free groups

Valerij G. Bardakov

math.GRarXiv:math/0408330

Abstract

We construct a linear representation of the group IA(Fn) of IA-automorphisms of a free group Fn, an extension of the Gassner representation of the pure braid group Pn. Although the problem of faithfulness of the Gassner representation is still open for n > 3, we prove that the restriction of our representation to the group of basis conjugating automorphisms Cbn contains a non-trivial kernel even if n=2. We construct also an extensions of the Burau representation to the group of conjugating automorphisms Cn. This representation is not faithful for n > 1.

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