2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/121337The Burau representation enables to define many other representations of the braid group $B_n$ by the topological operation of ``cabling braids''. We show here that these representations split into copies of the Burau representation itself and of a representation of $B_n/(P_n,P_n)$. In particular, we show that there is no gain in terms of faithfulness by cabling the Burau representation.11 pagesRepresentation TheoryGroup Theorytext