Riley's conjecture on SL(2,R) representations of 2-bridge knots

DOI10.1142/S021821651740003XMaRDI QIDQ2969697zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Cameron McA. Gordon

Publication date 23 March 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02787

zbMATH Keywords

2-bridge knot\(\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb R)\) parabolic representationcyclic branched covering spaceleft-orderable fundamental group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

Abstract: We prove Riley's conjecture on the number of parabolic SL(2,R) representations of 2-bridge knot groups.

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