Abstract
By evaluating the Burau representation at t
Funding source: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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Funding source: National Science Foundation
Award Identifier / Grant number: DMS-1057874
Funding statement: The first author is supported in part by EPSRC grant EP/J019593/1. The second author supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMS-1057874.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Joan Birman, Neil Fullarton, Louis Funar, Lalit Jain, Joseph Rabinoff, Douglas Ulmer, Kirsten Wickelgren, and Mante Zelvyte for helpful conversations. We would especially like to thank Andrew Putman, who pointed out a mistake in an earlier version and made several useful comments. We are also grateful to Jordan Ellenberg; a conversation with him on MathOverflow partly inspired the work in the last section.
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