Abstract
We describe a family of hyperbolic knots whose character variety contain exactly two distinct components of characters of irreducible representations. The intersection points between the components carry rich topological information. In particular, these points are nonintegral and detect a Seifert surface.
Citation
Michelle Chu. "Detecting essential surfaces as intersections in the character variety." Algebr. Geom. Topol. 17 (5) 2893 - 2914, 2017. https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2017.17.2893
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