Abstract

A large class of braid group representations are proven unitary which means a Hermitian bilinear form left invariant by the representation under consideration exists. This generalizes and improves known results on the Burau and Gassner representations. The elementary methods are naturally suggested by the study of monodromy invariant Hermitian forms. Applications to conformal quantum field theory in two dimensions are mentioned.

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