• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.555-561
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• 2010

For the pure braid groups, this paper gives a positive finite presentation whose generators are the standard Artin generators, and determines whether the submonoid generated by the Artin generators is a Garside monoid or not.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.673-693
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• 1997

In this work, the irreducible complex representations of degree 4 of $B_4$, the braid group on 4 strings, are classified. There are 4 families of representations: A two-parameter family of representations for which the image of $P_4$, the pure braid group on 4 strings, is abelian; two families of representations which are the composition of an irreducible representation of $B_3$, the braid group on 3 strings, with a certain special homomorphism $\pi : B_4 \longrightarrow B_3$; a family of representations which are the tensor product of 2 irreducible two-dimensional representations of $B_4$.