Congruence subgroups of braid groups

Tara E. Brendle

doi:10.5802/wbln.23

Tara E. Brendle ¹

¹ Tara E. Brendle, School of Mathematics & Statistics, University Place, University of Glasgow, G12 8SQ

Winter Braids Lecture Notes, Volume 5 (2018), Talk no. 3, 26 p.

Abstract

These notes are based on a mini-course given at CIRM in February 2018 as part of the workshop Winter Braids VIII.

Published online: 2020-06-29

DOI: 10.5802/wbln.23
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Tara E. Brendle ¹

¹ Tara E. Brendle, School of Mathematics & Statistics, University Place, University of Glasgow, G12 8SQ

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Tara E. Brendle. Congruence subgroups of braid groups. Winter Braids Lecture Notes, Volume 5 (2018), Talk no. 3, 26 p. doi : 10.5802/wbln.23. https://wbln.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/wbln.23/

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