On simple points of character varieties of 3-manifolds (Q2725536)

Recent research has shown that the representation and character varieties of a \(3\)-manifold \(M\) contain a great deal of topological and geometric information about the underlying manifold \(M\) as well as its Dehn fillings.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn this note, the authors show that when the manifold \(M\) is the exterior of a link \(L\) in a closed, connected, orientable \(3\)-manifold, then assumptions on the topology of a manifold resulting from a Dehn surgery on \(L\) can be used to deduce that certain representations and characters are indeed simple and to compute the dimension of the associated algebraic components.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0959.00034].