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Consider the character variety that parametrizes (semisimple) representations of \\(\\Gamma\\) into \\(SL_n({\\mathbb C})\\), denoted \\(X(\\Gamma,SL_n({\\mathbb C}))\\). This paper studies the question of when a reducible representation can be deformed into an irreducible one.  Take \\(\\alpha:\\Gamma \\to SL_a({\\mathbb C})\\) and \\(\\beta:\\Gamma \\to SL_b({\\mathbb C})\\) two irreducible and infinitesimally regular representations, with \\(n=a+b\\). Here infinitesimally regular means that \\(H^1(\\Gamma, {\\mathfrak sl}_a({\\mathbb C}_{Ad \\alpha})={\\mathbb C}^{a-1}\\), which implies in particular that \\(\\alpha\\) defines a smooth point of \\(X(\\Gamma,SL_a({\\mathbb C}))\\). For a given \\(\\lambda\\in {\\mathbb C}^*\\), consider the representation \\(\\rho_\\lambda= \\lambda^{b\\varphi}\\alpha \\oplus\\lambda^{a\\varphi}\\beta\\), where \\(\\varphi:\\Gamma \\to \\mathbb Z\\) is the abelianization map. Associated to the representation \\(\\alpha\\otimes \\beta^*\\) on \\(M_{a\\times b}({\\mathbb C})\\), we have twisted Alexander polynomials \\(\\Delta_i^+(t)=\\Delta^{\\alpha\\otimes\\beta^*}_i(t) \\in {\\mathbb C}[t^{\\pm 1}]\\). The twisted Alexander polynomial \\(\\Delta^V_i(t)\\) is essentially the generator of the ideal of relations on the cohomology module \\(H_i(X_\\infty, V)\\), where \\(X_\\infty\\) is the infinite cyclic covering of \\(X\\), and \\(t\\) is the Deck action on it. Analogously we have \\(\\Delta_i^-(t)=\\Delta^{\\beta\\otimes \\alpha^*}_i(t)\\).  The main results of the paper are the following. First, if \\(\\rho_\\lambda\\) can be deformed to an irreducible representation, then  \\[  \\Delta_1^+(\\lambda^n)=\\Delta_1^-(\\lambda^{-n})=0.  \\]  Second, if \\(\\Delta_0^+(\\lambda^n) \\neq 0\\) and \\(\\lambda^n\\) is a simple root of \\(\\Delta_1^+(t)\\), then \\(\\rho_\\lambda\\) can be deformed to irreducible representations. 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