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New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 30 (2024), 625-648

  

Anh T. Tran and Nisha Yadav

Canonical components of character varieties of double twist links J(2m+1, 2m+1)

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Published: May 9, 2024.
Keywords: Double twist link, character variety, canonical component, conic bundle, surface, blow up.
Subject [2020]: Primary 57K31, Secondary 57K10.

Abstract
We show that a certain smooth projective model of the canonical component of the SL2(C)-character variety of the double twist link J(2m+1, 2m+1), where m is a positive integer, is the conic bundle over the projective line P1 which is isomorphic to the surface obtained from P1 x P1 by repeating a one-point blow-up 6m+3 times.

Acknowledgements

The first author has been supported by a grant from the Simons Foundation (#708778).


Author information

Anh T. Tran
Department of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX 75080, USA

att140830@utdallas.edu

Nisha Yadav
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634, USA

fnisha@clemson.edu