Rings of Fricke characters and automorphism groups of free groups

The invariant theory of n × n matrices

Claudio Procesi · Advances in Mathematics · 1976 · 712 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Physics +13

TRACE IDENTITIES OF FULL MATRIX ALGEBRAS OVER A FIELD OF CHARACTERISTIC ZERO

Ju P Razmyslov · Mathematics of the USSR-Izvestiya · 1974 · 217 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Algebra +3

On Isotopies of Homeomorphisms of Riemann Surfaces

Joan S. Birman, Hugh M. Hilden · Annals of Mathematics · 1973 · 178 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Geometry +10

Characters of free groups represented in the two‐dimensional special linear group

Robert D. Horowitz · Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics · 1972 · 169 citations

Natural Sciences, Literature, Representation Theory +7

On the Residual Finiteness of Certain Mapping Class Groups

Edna K. Grossman · Journal of the London Mathematical Society · 1974 · 141 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Topology +10