A $100 Problem on the Gassner Representation
June-24-14
8:34 AM
Dror Bar-Natan: Academic Pensieve: 2014-06:
June 30 update: problem solved! See [link]
Some References.
Abdulrahim, "A Faithfulness Criterion for the Gassner Representation of the Pure Braid Group".
Kassel-Turaev, "Braid Groups" (book).
Kirk-Livingston-Wang "The Gassner Representation for String Links".
D.D. Long, "On the Linear Representations of Braid Groups".
C.C. Squier, "The Burau Representation is Unitary".