• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.7-14
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• 2009

In this short note, we consider a family of linear representations of the braid group and the fundamental group of a punctured torus bundle over the circle. We construct an irreducible (special) unitary representation of the fundamental group of a closed 3-manifold obtained by the Dehn filling.