Squier's intersection conjecture for braid-group power subgroups
Let be the braid group on strands, and for each positive integer let be the normal subgroup generated by for . Squier's intersection conjecture. The intersection of these subgroups is trivial:
The paper states a theorem proving this conjecture using the asymptotic faithfulness of quantum representations of mapping class groups. Thus the conjecture is resolved.
References
Primary source
Louis Funar and Toshitake Kohno, “On Burau representations at roots of unity”, arXiv:0907.0568 (2011).
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