The \(SL(2, \mathbb C)\)-character varieties of torus knots (Q731465)

Given a manifold \(M\), the variety of representations of \(\pi _1(M)\) into \(SL(2,\mathbb C)\) and the variety of characters of such representations both contain information on the topology of \(M\). In this paper the author uses this to study knots \(K_{m,n}\subset S^3\), by analysing the \(SL(2,\mathbb C)\)-character variety of the fundamental group \(G(K_{m,n})\), of the complement of the knot \( S^3\setminus K_{m,n}\). As a main point the author describes the algebraic structure of the character variety \(X(G(K_{m,n}))\).