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Knots in Washington XXVII; 3rd Japan-USA Workshop in Knot Theory
January 9-11, 2009
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Yoshiyuki Ohyama (TWCU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Kouki Taniyama (Waseda and GWU), Tatsuya Tsukamoto (Osaka IT), Hao Wu (GWU), Akira Yasuhara (Tokyo GU)

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On the number of irreducible components of a slice of the character variety of a knot group
by
Fumikazu Nagasato
Department of Mathematics, Meijo University

I will talk about a relationship between a (topological) property of a knot K and the number of irreducible components of a certain slice S0(K) of the SL2(C)-character variety of a knot group G(K).

Date received: November 27, 2008

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