Non-acyclic SL₂-representations of twist knots, -3-Dehn surgeries, and L-functions

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNAB034MaRDI QIDQ5095667zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ryoto Tange, Anh T. Tran, Jun Ueki

Publication date 10 August 2022

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13246

zbMATH Keywords

\(L\)-functionsChebyshev polynomialsDehn surgeryirreducible \(\mathrm{SL}_2\)-representationsnon-acyclic representationstwist knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other Dirichlet series and zeta functions (11M41) Connections of hypergeometric functions with groups and algebras, and related topics (33C80) Knot theory (57K10)

Abstract: We study irreducible ${mSL}_2$-representations of twist knots. We first determine all non-acyclic ${mSL}_2(mathbbC)$-representations, which turn out to lie on a line denoted as $x=y$ in $mathbb{R}^2$. Our main tools are character variety, Reidemeister torsion, and Chebyshev polynomials. We also verify a certain common tangent property, which yields a result on the $L$-functions of universal deformations, that is, the orders of the associated knot modules. Secondly, we prove that a representation is on the line $x=y$ if and only if it factors through the $(-3)$-Dehn surgery, and is non-acyclic if and only if the image of a certain element is of order 3. Finally, we study absolutely irreducible non-acyclic representations $overlineho$ over a finite field with characteristic $p>2$ to concretely determine all non-trivial $L$-functions $L_{ho}$ of the universal deformations over a CDVR. We show among other things that $L_{ho}$ $dot=$ $k_n(x{)}^2$ holds for a certain series $k_n(x)$ of polynomials.

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