`ISRN AlgebraVolume 2012 (2012), Article ID 858959, 13 pagesdoi:10.5402/2012/858959`
Research Article

Another Proof of the Faithfulness of the Lawrence-Krammer Representation of the Braid Group 𝐵 𝟑

Department of Mathematics, Beirut Arab University, P.O. Box 11-5020, Beirut 11072809, Lebanon

Received 16 March 2012; Accepted 6 May 2012

Academic Editors: P. Koshlukov, H. Li, S. Yang, and Y. Zhou

Copyright © 2012 Mohammad N. Abdulrahim and Mariam Hariri. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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