Riley's Conjecture on SL(2,R) Representations of 2-Bridge Knots

2016/02/08 by C. McA. Gordon, Gordon, C. McA.
Mathematics · #57M25 #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #math.GT #msc:57M25

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1602.02787

6 pages

arxiv created 2016/02/08 · arxiv updated 2016/02/10

Abstract

We prove Riley's conjecture on the number of parabolic SL(2,R) representations of 2-bridge knot groups.

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