The SL(3,C)-character variety of the figure eight knot

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Authors Michael Heusener, Vicente Muñoz, Joan Porti

Publication date 22 June 2017

Published in Illinois Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04451, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ijm/1498032024

zbMATH Keywords

character varietyfigure eight knotreducible and irreducible representationsrepresentation variety

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Abstract: We give explicit equations that describe the character variety of the figure eight knot for the groups SL(3,C), GL(3,C) and PGL(3,C). This has five components of dimension 2, one consisting of totally reducible representations, another one consisting of partially reducible representations, and three components of irreducible representations. Of these, one is distinguished as it contains the curve of irreducible representations coming from $Sy{m}^2:SL(2,C)oSL(3,C)$. The other two components are induced by exceptional Dehn fillings of the figure eight knot. We also describe the action of the symmetry group of the figure eight knot on the character varieties.

Review text

The character variety of a three-manifold group in \(\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb C)\) is a useful tool in the study of the geometric and topological properties of the three-manifold. Much less is known for the character varieties of three-manifold groups in other Lie groups, notably for \(\mathrm{SL}(r,\mathbb C)\), \(r\geq 3\). In this paper, the authors give explicit equations that describe the character variety of the figure eight knot for the groups \(\mathrm{SL}(3, \mathbb C)\), \(\mathrm{GL}(3, \mathbb C)\) and \(\mathrm{PGL}(3, \mathbb C)\). They also describe each of the five components of the character variety obtained in the three cases and study the action of the symmetry group of the figure eight knot on the character varieties.

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