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

DOI10.1007/S10711-018-0404-8MaRDI QIDQ2273262zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antonin Guilloux, Pierre Will

Publication date 18 September 2019

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

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)

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 $pi$.

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