Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4660536 Topology and its Applications 2010 6 Pages PDF
Abstract

We observe a behavior of a slice (an algebraic subset) S0(K) of the SL2(C)-character variety of a knot group under the connected sum of knots. It turns out that the number of 0-dimensional components of S0(K) is additive under the connected sum of knots.

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