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Moduli Spaces of Representations of Knot and Prime Groups

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Knots and Primes

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In this chapter, in view of the analogy between a knot group and a prime group, we discuss some analogies between the moduli spaces of 1-dimensional representations of knot and prime groups, and the associated higher Alexander and Iwasawa invariants.

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  1. Graduate School of Mathematics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan

    Masanori Morishita

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Morishita, M. (2012). Moduli Spaces of Representations of Knot and Prime Groups. In: Knots and Primes. Universitext. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2158-9_13

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