The {\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{C})-character variety of a Montesinos knot

DOI10.1556/012.2022.01519MaRDI QIDQ6359710arXivFDO

Authors Haimiao Chen

Publication date 3 February 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1556/012.2022.01519

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10) Invariants of 3-manifolds (including skein modules, character varieties) (57K31)

arXiv classification

math.GT

Abstract: For each Montesinos knot $K$, we propose an efficient method to explicitly determine the irreducible $mSL(2,mathbbC)$-character variety, and show that it can be decomposed as $mathcal{X}_0(K)sqcupmathcal{X}_1(K)sqcupmathcal{X}_2(K)sqcupmathcal{X}^{\prime }(K)$, where $mathcal{X}_0(K)$ consists of trace-free characters, $mathcal{X}_1(K)$ consists of characters of "unions" of representations of rational knots (or rational link, which appears at most once), $mathcal{X}_2(K)$ is an algebraic curve, and $mathcal{X}^{\prime }(K)$ consists of finitely many points when $K$ satisfies a generic condition.

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