Braid groups define symmetries of many interesting constructions of mathematical physics, including
quantum groups and mirror symmetry. In this talk, I will review some of the related problems and
results and explain that the Lawrence-Krammer representation is a quantization of the symmetric
square of the Burau representation.
Links:
[1] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/taxonomy/term/39
[2] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/3444
[3] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/5312