Tracefree $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$-representations of Montesinos links

Haimiao Chen

Given a link $L$, a representation ${\pi }_1(S^3-L)\to \mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$ is {\it tracefree} if the image of each meridian has trace zero. We determine the conjugacy classes of t…