Deformations of metabelian representations of knot groups into SL(3, C)

DOI10.1142/S0218216510007887zbMATH Open1195.57023arXiv0710.3511OpenAlexW2582854668MaRDI QIDQ3558835FDOQ3558835

Authors: Leila Ben Abdelghani, Michael Heusener, Hajer Jebali 

Publication date: 10 May 2010

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

Abstract: Let K be a knot in $S^3$ and $X$ its complement. We study deformations of reducible metabelian representations of the knot group $p{i}_1(X)$ into $SL(3,mathbbC)$ which are associated to a double root of the Alexander polynomial. We prove that these reducible metabelian representations are smooth points of the representation variety and that they have irreducible non metabelian deformations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3511

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zbMATH Keywords

representations of knot groupsreducible and metabelian representationsSL\((3,\mathbb{C})\)-representations variety

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