{
  "id": "0909.3654",
  "version": "v3",
  "published": "2009-09-20T20:23:33.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-05-25T14:13:06.000Z",
  "title": "Metabelian SL(n,C) representations of knot groups II: fixed points",
  "authors": [
    "Hans Boden",
    "Stefan Friedl"
  ],
  "comment": "9 pages, almost identical to published version",
  "journal": "Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 249 (2011), 1-10",
  "categories": [
    "math.GT"
  ],
  "abstract": "Given a knot K in an integral homology sphere with exterior N_K, there is a natural action of the cyclic group Z/n on the space of SL(n,C) representations of the knot group \\pi_1(N_K), and this induces an action on the SL(n,C) character variety. We identify the fixed points of this action in terms of characters of metabelian representations, and we apply this to show that the twisted Alexander polynomial associated to an irreducible metabelian SL(n,C) representation is actually a polynomial in t^n.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v3",
      "updated": "2012-05-25T14:13:06.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "57M25",
      "20C15"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "knot group",
      "fixed points",
      "integral homology sphere",
      "cyclic group z/n",
      "character variety"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 9,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2009arXiv0909.3654B"
    }
  }
}