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Roots of unity and the character variety of a knot complement

Part of: Low-dimensional topology Topological manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

D. Cooper  and
D. D. Long
D. Cooper
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Ca. 93106, USA
D. D. Long
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Ca. 93106, USA
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Abstract

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Using elementary methods we give a new proof of a result concerning the special form of the character of the bounded peripheral element which arises at an end of a curve component of the character variety of a knot complement.

MSC classification

Secondary: 57M25: Knots and links in $S^3$ 57N10: Topology of general $3$-manifolds
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , August 1993 , pp. 90 - 99
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1993

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