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On certain L-functions for deformations of knot group representations

Geometric Topology 2016-08-31 v3 Algebraic Topology Number Theory

Abstract

We study the twisted knot module for the universal deformation of an SL2{\rm SL}_2-representation of a knot group, and introduce an associated LL-function, which may be seen as an analogue of the algebraic pp-adic LL-function associated to the Selmer module for the universal deformation of a Galois representation. We then investigate two problems proposed by Mazur: Firstly we show the torsion property of the twisted knot module over the universal deformation ring under certain conditions. Secondly we verify the simplicity of the zeroes of the LL-function by some concrete examples for 2-bridge knots.

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@article{arxiv.1506.00351,
  title  = {On certain L-functions for deformations of knot group representations},
  author = {Takahiro Kitayama and Masanori Morishita and Ryoto Tange and Yuji Terashima},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.00351},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

35 pages, to appear in Transactions of the AMS. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1409.4226

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