REPRESENTATIONS OF KNOT GROUPS AND VASSILIEV INVARIANTS

DOI10.1142/S0218216596000254MaRDI QIDQ4387451zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Altschüler

Publication date 7 May 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/q-alg/9503015

zbMATH Keywords

finite groupVassiliev invariant

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Abstract: We show that the number of homomorphisms from a knot group to a finite group $G$ cannot be a Vassiliev invariant, unless it is constant on the set of $(2,2p+1)$ torus knots. In several cases, such as when $G$ is a dihedral or symmetric group, this implies that the number of homomorphisms is not a Vassiliev invariant.

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