arXiv:2607.05283math.GT
In this paper we use ideas introduced earlier by Moody, Long, Long-Paton, and Bigelow to prove the theorem of the title, that the Burau representation of the classical braid group is faithful for n = 4. An immediate corollary is that the Jones representation of the braid group is also faithful for n = 4.
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There is a link to the paper in the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05283
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