Twisted Alexander polynomials of hyperbolic links

DOI10.4171/PRIMS/53-3-3MaRDI QIDQ2403288zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Takayuki Morifuji, Anh T. Tran

Publication date 8 September 2017

Published in Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06360

zbMATH Keywords

character varietydouble twist linkhyperbolic linkparabolic representationtwisted Alexander polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: In this paper we apply the twisted Alexander polynomial to study the fibering and genus detecting problems for oriented links. In particular we generalize a conjecture of Dunfield, Friedl and Jackson on the torsion polynomial of hyperbolic knots to hyperbolic links, and confirm it for an infinite family of hyperbolic 2-bridge links. Moreover we consider a similar problem for parabolic representations of 2-bridge link groups.

Review text

Given a finitely presented group \(G\) and a linear representation \(\rho\) of \(G\), one can define a rational function which is an invariant of \(G\), called the \textsl{twisted Alexander polynomial associated with \(\rho\)}. These invariants generalise the classical Alexander polynomial for knots groups which is associated with the trivial \(1\)-dimensional representation. \textit{N. M. Dunfield} et al. conjectured in [Exp. Math. 21, No. 4, 329--352 (2012; Zbl 1266.57008)] that the twisted Alexander polynomial of a hyperbolic knot group associated to a representation in \(SL(2,{\mathbb C})\) which is a lift of the holonomy detects the genus (equivalently the Thurston norm) and fibredness of the knot. The authors consider the analogous question for oriented hyperbolic links and show that the natural generalisation of the above conjecture holds true for a family of \(2\)-bridge links, namely \textsl{double twist links}. They observe that the fibredness and genus of \(2\)-bridge links are already determined by the reduced Alexander polynomial, however they prove that there are double twist two-component links whose genus is not detected by the twisted Alexander polynomials associated to some \textsl{parabolic representations}, that is representations of the link group in \(SL(2,{\mathbb C})\) that send all the meridans of the link to matrices with trace equal to \(2\).

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