Congruence subgroups of braid groups
Tara E. Brendle1
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.

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

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DOI: 10.5802/wbln.23
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://proceedings.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/wbln.23/

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