On SL(3,C)-representations of the Whitehead link group

DOI10.1007/S10711-018-0404-8zbMATH Open1506.57002arXiv1607.01536OpenAlexW2899988844MaRDI QIDQ2273262FDOQ2273262

Antonin Guilloux, Pierre Will

Publication date: 18 September 2019

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe a family of representations in SL(3,$mathbbC$) of the fundamental group $pi$ of the Whitehead link complement. These representations are obtained by considering pairs of regular order three elements in SL(3,$mathbbC$) and can be seen as factorising through a quotient of $pi$ defined by a certain exceptional Dehn surgery on the Whitehead link. Our main result is that these representations form an algebraic component of the SL(3,$mathbbC$)-character variety of $pi$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01536

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zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic geometrycharacter varietiesgeometric structuresrepresentations of fundamental groups of manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Knot theory (57K10)

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