Casson-Lin Type Invariants for Links

In 1992, Xiao-Song Lin constructed an invariant h of knots in the 3-sphere via a signed count of the conjugacy classes of irreducible SU(2)-representations of the fundamental group of the knot exterior with trace-free meridians. Lin showed that h equals one-half times the knot signature. Using metho...

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Main Author: Harper, Eric
Format: Others
Published: Scholarly Repository 2010
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Online Access:http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/372