Event Date:
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Event Location:
- South Hall 4607B
Nancy Scherich (UCSB)
Title: Mapping the Braid Groups into Lattices
Abstract: Many well loved representations of the braid groups have the property that the image matrices fix a Hermitian form. Using this form, one can show that specializing to certain Salem numbers places the image inside a lattice. While it is unknown whether the image itself is a lattice, there are some interesting results on commensurabilit y of the target lattices.
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