Seminar series
Date
Mon, 29 Apr 2019
15:45
Location
L6
Speaker
Jacob Rasmussen
Organisation
Cambridge

X.S. Lin defined an invariant of knots in S^3 by counting represenations 
of the knot group into SU(2) with fixed meridinal holonomy. Lin's 
invariant was subsequently shown to coincide with the Levine-Tristam 
signature. I'll define an analogous total Lin invariant which counts 
repesentations into both SU(2) and SL_2(R). Unlike the SU(2) version, this 
invariant does not (as far as I know) coincide with other known 
invariants. I'll describe some applications to left-orderability of Dehn 
fillings and branched covers, as well as a curious connection with the 
Alexander polynomial. This is joint work with Nathan Dunfield.

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