Studies on partial orders on sets of 3-manifolds defined by epimorphisms between fundamental groups.

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For the set of prime knots with up to 11-crossings, we determined the partial order relation defined by using meridian preserving epimorphisms between knots groups. We also proved that for any given 2-bridge knot there exists a Montesinos knot with an epimorphims which is induced by a degree zero map. Further we found pairs of a 3-bridge hyperbolic Montsinos knot and a 2-bridge hyperbolic knot which is not induced from a nonzero degree map. For any knot, there exists a infinitely many prime numbers such that there exists a non abelian representation on its knot group in 2-dimensional special linear group over a finite prime field with such a characteristic.