How to construct ideal points of SL₂(C) representation spaces of knot groups

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(97)00267-8MaRDI QIDQ1292712zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tomotada Ohtsuki

Publication date 20 October 1999

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0166-8641(97)00267-8

zbMATH Keywords

ideal points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10)

Review text

Following an idea of \textit{M. Culler} and \textit{P. B. Shalen} [Ann. Math., II. Ser. 117, 109-146 (1983; Zbl 0529.57005)], the author investigates limit points of the space of \(SL_2(\mathbb C)\)-representations of certain knot groups. His approach consists in choosing concretely certain knot groups (see below) in order to perform concrete calculations and derive concrete statements. It is shown that the trefoil knot group has exactly one such ideal point, the figure eight knot group two and the \(5_2\) knot group three of them. The author also investigates the trees that Culler and Shalen associated to ideal points in [loc. cit.] these are subtrees of the Serre tree of \(SL_2\) over the complex formal power series field in one indeterminate.

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