Representation spaces of pretzel knots
Geometric Topology
2014-10-01 v2
Abstract
We study the representation spaces as appearing in Kronheimer and Mrowka's framed instanton knot Floer homology, for a class of pretzel knots. In particular, for pretzel knots with pairwise coprime, these appear to be non-degenerate and comprise representations in SU(2) that are not binary dihedral.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1012.2876,
title = {Representation spaces of pretzel knots},
author = {Raphael Zentner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.2876},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
30 pages, 3 figures. This is the published version. It is more general than the previous version regarding the values $p,q,r$. Furthermore, rewritten according after referee's remarks