Symmetry of Reidemeister torsion on SU₂-representation spaces of knots

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Symmetry of Reidemeister torsion on \(SU 2\)-representation spaces of knots



Abstract: We study two sorts of actions on the space of conjugacy classes of irreducible SU2-representations of a knot group. One of them is an involution which comes from the algebraic structure of SU2 and the other is the action by the outer automorphism group of the knot group. In particular, we consider them on an 1-dimensional smooth part of the space, which is canonically oriented and metrized via a Reidemeister torsion volume form. As an application we show that the Reidemeister torsion function on the 1-dimensional subspace has symmetry about the metrization.


The paper studies two actions on the space of conjugacy classes of irreducible SU\(_2\)-representations of a knot group. One of these actions is an involution originating from the algebraic structure of SU\(_2\). The other action depends on the outer automorphism group of the knot group. The 1-dimensional smooth part of the representation space is canonically oriented and metrized by the Reidemeister torsion volume form. Using this the author establishes a symmetry property of the Reidemeister torsion function.











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