Irreducible SL(2, C)-metabelian representations of branched twist spins

DOI10.1142/S021821651950007XzbMATH Open1411.57039arXiv1704.08923OpenAlexW2979455349MaRDI QIDQ4629314FDOQ4629314

Authors: Mizuki Fukuda 

Publication date: 21 March 2019

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

Abstract: An $(m,n)$-branched twist spin is a fibered $2$-knot in $S^4$ which is determined by a $1$-knot $K$ and coprime integers $m$ and $n$. For a $1$-knot, Lin proved that the number of irreducible $SL(2,mathbbC)$-metabelian representations of the knot group of a $1$-knot up to conjugation is determined by the knot determinant of the $1$-knot. In this paper, we prove that the number of irreducible $SL(2,mathbbC)$-metabelian representations of the knot group of an $(m,n)$-branched twist spin up to conjugation is determined by the determinant of a $1$-knot in the orbit space by comparing a presentation of the knot group of the branched twist spin with the Lin's presentation of the knot group of the $1$-knot.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.08923

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zbMATH Keywords

representationscircle actions2-knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

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• Branched twist spins and knot determinants

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