On the twisted Alexander polynomial for representations into SL₂( C)

DOI10.1142/S0218216513500594MaRDI QIDQ2859566zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Anh T. Tran

Publication date 8 November 2013

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1631

zbMATH Keywords

2-bridge knotnon-abelian representationtwist knottwisted Alexander polynomial

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Abstract: We study the twisted Alexander polynomial $Delt{a}_{K,ho}$ of a knot $K$ associated to a non-abelian representation $ho$ of the knot group into $S{L}_2(BC)$. It is known for every knot $K$ that if $K$ is fibered, then for every non-abelian representation, $Delt{a}_{K,ho}$ is monic and has degree $4g(K)-2$ where $g(K)$ is the genus of $K$. Kim and Morifuji recently proved the converse for 2-bridge knots. In fact they proved a stronger result: if a 2-bridge knot $K$ is non-fibered, then all but finitely many non-abelian representations on some component have $Delt{a}_{K,ho}$ non-monic and degree $4g(K)-2$. In this paper, we consider two special families of non-fibered 2-bridge knots including twist knots. For these families, we calculate the number of non-abelian representations where $Delt{a}_{K,ho}$ is monic and calculate the number of non-abelian representations where the degree of $Delt{a}_{K,ho}$ is less than $4g(K)-2$.

Review text

The twisted Alexander polynomial is an invariant of a knot together with (the conjugacy class of) a representation of the knot group. A representation is said to be non-abelian if its image is a non-abelian group.NEWLINENEWLINEThis paper studies two particular families of non-fibred 2-bridge knots. One family consists of twist knots. Each member of the other family is a `2-bridge knot assigned to a pair of relatively prime odd integers'. For these families, the author gives the number of non-abelian representations into \(SL(2,\mathbb{C})\) for which the degree of the twisted Alexander polynomial is strictly less than the maximal value of \(4g-2\) (where \(g\) is the genus of the knot), and the number for which the polynomial is monic. These numbers are established by direct calculation using Chebyshev polynomials.

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