The SU(N) Casson-Lin invariants for links

DOI10.2140/PJM.2016.285.257MaRDI QIDQ346682zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hans U. Boden, Eric Harper

Publication date 30 November 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03730

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braidsCasson-Lin invariantlinksrepresentation spaces

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Abstract: We introduce the $SU(N)$ Casson-Lin invariants for links $L$ in $S^3$ with more than one component. Writing $L=el{l}_{1}cupcdotscupel{l}_n$, we require as input an $n$-tuple $(a_1,ldots,a_n)in{mathbbZ}^n$ of labels, where $a_j$ is associated with $el{l}_j$. The $SU(N)$ Casson-Lin invariant, denoted $h_{N,a}(L)$, gives an algebraic count of certain projective $SU(N)$ representations of the link group $p{i}_1(S^{3}smallsetminusL)$, and the family $h_{N,a}$ of link invariants gives a natural extension of the $SU(2)$ Casson-Lin invariant, which was defined for knots by X.-S. Lin and for 2-component links by Harper and Saveliev. We compute the invariants for the Hopf link and more generally for chain links, and we show that, under mild conditions on the labels $(a_1,ldots,a_n)$, the invariants $h_{N,a}(L)$ vanish whenever $L$ is a split link.

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