Event
Anthony Conway, University of Geneva
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 15:00to16:00
Burnside Hall
Room 920, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA
The Burau representation and twisted Alexander polynomials.
After reviewing the definition of the braid group, I will recall a topological construction of the Burau representation and its relation to the Alexander polynomial. If time permits, I will then discuss a generalisation of this result involving twisted Alexander polynomials.