The SL(2,C)-character variety of the Borromean link

DOI10.1007/S10474-024-01445-8MaRDI QIDQ6607784zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Haimiao Chen, T. Yu

Publication date 19 September 2024

Published in Acta Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S10474-024-01445-8

zbMATH Keywords

Borromean linkSL(2, \(\mathbb{C}\))-character varietytwist Alexander polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

The irreducible \(SL(2,\mathbb{C})\)--character variety of a finitely presented group \(\Gamma\) is the set of characters of the irreducible \(SL(2,\mathbb{C})\) representations of \(\Gamma\).\par Taking \(\Gamma\) to be the fundamental group of the Borromean link in \(S^3\), the authors calculate the irreducible character variety of \(\Gamma\). They then obtain a formula for the twisted Alexander polynomial associated to an irreducible \(SL(2,\mathbb{C})\) representation as a function on the irreducible character variety.

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