a Section de Mathématiques, Université de Genève, 2-4 rue du Lièvre, 1211 Genève 24, Switzerland b IRMA, UMR 7501 CNRS/ULP, 7 rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg, Cedex, France
Abstract:
We construct a functor from the category of oriented tangles in R3 to the category of Hermitian modules and Lagrangian relations over Zt,t-1]. This functor extends the Burau representations of the braid groups and its generalization to string links due to Le Dimet.