SL₂( C)-character variety of a hyperbolic link and regulator

DOI10.2140/PJM.2011.249.385MaRDI QIDQ627403zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Weiping Li, Qingxue Wang

Publication date 1 March 2011

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0478

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic \(K\)-theorycharacter varietyChern-Simons invarianthyperbolic linksregulator mapvolume conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plane and space curves (14H50) Symbols and arithmetic ((K)-theoretic aspects) (19F15)

Abstract: In this paper, we study the $S{L}_2(mathbbC)$ character variety of a hyperbolic link in $S^3$. We analyze a special smooth projective variety $Y^h$ arising from some 1-dimensional irreducible slices on the character variety. We prove that a natural symbol obtained from these 1-dimensional slices is a torsion in $K_2(mathbbC(Y^h))$. By using the regulator map from $K_2$ to the corresponding Deligne cohomology, we get some variation formulae on some Zariski open subset of $Y^h$. From this we give some discussions on a possible parametrized volume conjecture for both hyperbolic links and knots.

Review text

This is a sequel of the paper by the same authors [Commun. Contemp. Math. 10, Suppl. 1, 1023--1032 (2008; Zbl 1221.57021)], where they gave a relation of the \(\roman{SL}(2;\mathbb{C})\)-character variety of a hyperbolic knot complement to the volume and the Chern-Simons invariant by using a torsion element in \(K_2(\mathbb{C}(Y))\) and the regulator map, where \(Y\) is an irreducible component of the zero locus of the \(A\)-polynomial of a knot. In this paper the authors generalize the result to the case of hyperbolic links.

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