Twisted Alexander polynomials and representation shifts

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDP029zbMATH Open1191.57010arXiv0708.3831OpenAlexW2055607479MaRDI QIDQ3633197FDOQ3633197

Authors: Daniel S. Silver, Susan G. Williams 

Publication date: 17 June 2009

Published in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For any knot, the following are equivalent. (1) The infinite cyclic cover has uncountably many finite covers; (2) there exists a finite-image representation of the knot group for which the twisted Alexander polynomial vanishes; (3) the knot group admits a finite-image representation such that the image of the fundamental group of an incompressible Seifert surface is a proper subgroup of the image of the commutator subgroup of the knot group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3831

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zbMATH Keywords

knotknot grouptwisted Alexander polynomial, representation shift

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological entropy (37B40)

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