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The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4

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Per Hacker News, an arxiv paper proves that the Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for braid groups of size four. The result is in abstract algebra and representation theory.

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05283

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