METABELIAN SL(N, ℂ) REPRESENTATIONS OF KNOT GROUPS, III: DEFORMATIONS
METABELIAN SL(N, ℂ) REPRESENTATIONS OF KNOT GROUPS, III: DEFORMATIONS
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结组的 METABELIAN SL(N, ℂ) 表示,III:变形
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2012
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Stefan Friedl
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H. Boden;Stefan Friedl
Given a knot K and an irreducible metabelian SL(n,C) representation we establish an equality for the dimension of the first twisted cohomology. In the case of equality, we prove that the representation must have finite image and that it is conjugate to an SU(n) representation. In this case we show it determines a smooth point x in the SL(n,C) character variety, and we use a deformation argument to establish the existence of a smooth (n-1)-dimensional family of characters of irreducible SL(n,C) representations near x.
Combining this with our previous existence results, we deduce the existence of large families of irreducible SU(n) and SL(n,C) non-metabelian representation for knots K in homology 3-spheres S with nontrivial Alexander polynomial.
We then relate the condition on twisted cohomology to a more accessible condition on untwisted cohomology of a certain metabelian branched cover of S branched along K.