Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9516287 | Topology | 2005 | 21 Pages |
Abstract
We construct a functor from the category of oriented tangles in R3 to the category of Hermitian modules and Lagrangian relations over Z[t,t-1]. This functor extends the Burau representations of the braid groups and its generalization to string links due to Le Dimet.
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Authors
David Cimasoni, Vladimir Turaev,