REPRESENTING KNOT-GROUPS INTO SL(2, C)

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COOPER, D
LONG, DD
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10.2307/2159765
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O29 [应用数学];
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070104 ;
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We show that if a knot in S3 has nontrivial Alexander polynomial then the fundamental group of its complement has a representation into SL(2, C) whose image contains a free group of rank two.
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