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A New Proof of the Faithfulness of Brauer’s Representation of Temperley-Lieb Algebras ∗ ∗∗ ∗ ˇ ˇ ´ ´ Kosta Dosen , Zana Kovijanic and Zoran Petric ∗Matematiˇcki institut, SANU Knez Mihailova 35, p.f. 367 11001 Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro email: {kosta, zpetric}@mi.sanu.ac.yu ∗∗Prirodno-matematiˇcki fakultet Univerzitet Crne Gore Cetinjski put b.b., p.f. 211 81000 Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro email: zanak@cg.yu Abstract The faithfulness of the orthogonal group case of Brauer’s representation of the Brauer centralizer algebras restricted to their Temperley-Lieb sub- algebras, which was established by Vaughan Jones, is here proved in a new, elementary and self-contained, manner. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 57M99, 15A03, 16G99, 05C50 Keywords: Temperley-Lieb algebras, representation, matrices, linear in- dependence Acknowledgement. We would like to thank an anonymous referee for a very helpful comment concerning the beginning of Section 4. 1 Introduction Temperley-Lieb algebras, whose roots are in statistical mechanics (see [12] and [4], Appendix II.b), play a prominent role in knot theory and low-dimensional topology. They have entered this field through Jones’ representation of Artin’s braid groups in a version of these algebras (see [7], §11, and works of Jones cited therein), on which the famous Jones polynomial of knot theory is based (see also 1 [9],