Twisted Alexander polynomials and representation shifts

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDP029MaRDI QIDQ3633197zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

zbMATH Keywords

knotknot grouptwisted Alexander polynomial, representation shift

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological entropy (37B40)

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.

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• Separability of embedded surfaces in 3-manifolds
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