On the geometry of the slice of trace-free \(SL_2(\mathbb{C})\)-characters of a knot group

DOI10.1007/s00208-011-0754-0zbMath1270.57045arXiv0807.0714MaRDI QIDQ1938410

Yoshikazu Yamaguchi, Fumikazu Nagasato

Publication date: 4 February 2013

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.0714

zbMATH Keywords

knot group; two-bridge knot; character variety; pretzel knot; double branched cover; metabelian representation; dihedral representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57M05: Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus

57M12: Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings

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Trace-free SL(2, ℂ)-representations of Montesinos links, Twisted Alexander polynomials, character varieties and Reidemeister torsions of double branched covers, On the twisted Alexander polynomial for metabelian representations into \(\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb C)\), On a behavior of a slice of the \(\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb C)\)-character variety of a knot group under the connected sum

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