Traceless SU(2) representations of 2-stranded tangles

DOI10.1017/S0305004116000360MaRDI QIDQ5360426zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 28 September 2017

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.6042

zbMATH Keywords

torus knotspretzel knotspillowcaseSU(2) representations2-stranded tangles4-punctured 2-spherebinary dihedral representationstraceless representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Floer homology (57R58) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

Abstract: Given a 2-stranded tangle in a $$ homology ball, $TsubsetY$, we investigate the character variety $R(Y,T)$ of conjugacy classes of traceless SU(2) representations of $p{i}_1(YsetminusT)$. In particular we completely determine the subspace of binary dihedral representations, and identify all of $R(Y,T)$ for many tangles naturally associated to knots in S^3. Moreover, we determine the image of the restriction map from $R(T,Y)$ to the traceless SU(2) character variety of the 4-punctured 2-sphere (the {it pillowcase}). We give examples to show this image can be non-linear in general, and show it is linear for tangles associated to pretzel knots.

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