On linear groups
โ Scribed by Geoffrey R Robinson
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 461 KB
- Volume
- 131
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-8693
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Very recently M. S. Lucido proved that for any prime p, a periodic finitary linear p X -group G of characteristic p is isomorphic to some finitary linear group G of 0 characteristic zero. Moreover G can be chosen to be irreducible whenever G is 0 irreducible. Here we offer an alternative proof, one
to the memories of wilhelm magnus and horace mochizuki ## 1. Introduction Let B n designate the braid group on n strings (Artin [1]). In 1936 Burau [7] gave a matrix representation of B n and in 1961 Gassner [8] generalized Burau's representation. B 2 is infinite cyclic and hence is a linear group