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Knots in Washington XLVI: 70th Birthday of Oleg Viro;
May 4-6, 2018
George Washington University,
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU)

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An Application of Salem Numbers to Braid Group Representations
by
Nancy Scherich
UC Santa Barbara working with Darren Long
Coauthors: none

Many well known braid group representations have a parameter. I will show how to carefully choose evaluations of the parameter to force the representation to be discrete, and sometimes even land in a lattice. It is surprising and exciting to see how careful algebraic constructions can lead to geometric results.

Date received: April 9, 2018

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