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Define \\(\\sigma^ \\wedge\\subset S^ 3\\) to be the closed braid defined by \\(\\sigma\\). We call two representations of a group in \\(\\text{SU}_ 2\\) equivalent \\((\\sim)\\) iff they differ by an inner automorphism of \\(\\text{SU}_ 2\\). Analogous to Casson's original construction an intersection number of the representation spaces corresponding to a braid representative of a knot \\(k\\subset S^ 3\\) is defined. The construction goes as follows: The braid \\(\\sigma\\) defines an automorphism of \\(F_ n\\) (the free group of rank \\(n)\\) and therefore a diffeomorphism (still denoted by \\(\\sigma)\\) of \\(R_ n:=\\text{Hom}(\\pi_ 1(S^ 3\\backslash\\sigma^ \\wedge),\\text{SU}_ 2)\\). (The fixed point set of \\(\\sigma\\) might be identified with \\(\\text{Hom}(\\pi_ 1(S^ 3\\backslash\\sigma^ \\wedge),\\text{SU}_ 2)\\).) Assume that \\(\\sigma^ \\wedge\\) is a knot and consider the following subspaces of \\(R_ n\\times R_ n:{\\mathcal H}_ n:=\\{(X_ 1,\\dots,X_ n,Y_ 1,\\dots,Y_ n)\\in R_ n\\times R_ n| X_ 1\\cdots X_ n=Y_ 1\\cdots Y_ n\\}\\), \\(\\Lambda_ n:=\\{(X_ 1,\\dots,X_ n,X_ 1,\\dots,X_ n)\\in R_ n\\times R_ n\\}\\), \\(\\Gamma_ \\sigma:=\\{(X_ 1,\\dots,X_ n,\\sigma(X_ 1),\\dots,\\sigma(X_ n))\\in R_ n\\times R_ n\\}\\), \\(Q_ n:=\\{(X_ 1,\\dots,X_ n)\\in R_ n|\\text{tr}(X_ i)=0\\}\\), \\(H_ n:={\\mathcal H}_ n\\cap Q_ n\\times Q_ n\\) and \\(S_ n\\subset H_ n\\) should be the subset consisting of reducible representations.   It turns out that the intersection \\((\\Lambda_ n\\backslash S_ n)\\cap(\\Gamma\\backslash S_ n)\\) is compact in \\(H_ n\\). Moreover, for \\(\\Theta\\in\\{H_ n,\\Gamma_ \\sigma,\\Lambda_ n\\}\\) the quotient \\(\\hat\\Theta:=(\\Theta\\backslash S_ n)/\\sim\\) is an oriented manifold and the intersection number \\(h(\\sigma):=\\#_{\\hat H_ n}(\\hat\\Lambda_ n,\\hat\\Gamma_ \\sigma)\\) is defined.   It is proved that for braids \\(\\alpha\\) and \\(\\beta\\) which are defining equivalent knots \\(\\alpha^ \\wedge\\cong\\beta^ \\wedge\\subset S^ 3\\) one gets \\(h(\\alpha)=h(\\beta)\\) and therefore a knot invariant \\(h(k)\\) is established. In the second part of the paper the equation \\(h(k)={1\\over 2}\\sigma(k)\\) is proved where \\(\\sigma(k)\\) denotes the signature of \\(k\\).   It is remarked by the author that the construction can be done by replacing \\(Q_ n\\) by \\(Q^{(r)}_ n:=\\{(X_ 1,\\dots,X_ n)\\in R_ n|\\text{tr}(X_ i)=r\\}\\), where \\(r\\in\\mathbb{R}\\), \\(-2<r<2\\). In order to obtain an invariant \\(h^{(r)}(k)\\) one should be aware of the fact that \\(r\\) should not correspond to a zero of \\(\\Delta_ k(t)\\) on the unit circle i.e. \\(r=2\\cos\\varphi\\) and \\(\\Delta(e^{2i\\varphi})\\neq 0\\). It seems that \\(h^{(r)}(k)\\) is connected to the Levine-Tristram signature i.e. it is obvious to conjecture \\(h^{(r)}(k)={1\\over 2}\\sigma((1-\\omega)V+(1- \\overline\\omega)V^ T)\\) where \\(V\\) denotes a Seifert matrix of \\(k\\) and \\(\\omega=e^{2i\\varphi}\\).   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