abstract: Drinfeld used associators to construct faithful representations of braid groups into complete algebras of chord diagrams, whose extension to the group ring induces a multiplicative isomorphism, at the associated graded level. We do the same, for welded braid groups and oriented chord diagrams. Our representations are deļ¬ned over the rationals, by simple explicit formulae. This is joint work with Barbu Berceanu.
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