Casson's invariant and quadratic reciprocity (Q806109)
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Casson's invariant and quadratic reciprocity (English)
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1991
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A corollary to Casson's work on his \(\lambda\)-invariant is that: The number of nondegenerate irreducible unitary representations of the fundamental group of a homology 3-sphere is even. The authors generalize this result to all finitely presented perfect groups which admit only finitely many non-trivial representations in SU(2).
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\(\lambda \) -invariant
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fundamental group
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homology 3-sphere
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