Metabelian SL(n,C) representations of knot groups II: fixed points
Abstract
Given a knot K in an integral homology sphere with exterior NK, there is a natural action of the cyclic group Z/n on the space of SL(n,C) representations of the knot group π1(NK), 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 tn.
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