Squier's intersection conjecture for braid-group power subgroups

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Let BnB_n be the braid group on nn strands, and for each positive integer kk let Bn[k]B_n[k] be the normal subgroup generated by gjkg_j^k for 1≤j≤n−11\leq j\leq n-1. Squier's intersection conjecture. The intersection of these subgroups is trivial:

⋂kBn[k]={1}.\bigcap_k B_n[k]=\{1\}.

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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