Deformations of metabelian representations of knot groups into $SL(3,\mathbb{C})$

Leila Ben Abdelghani, Michael Heusener, Hajer Jebali

Let K be a knot in $S^3$ and $X$ its complement. We study deformations of reducible metabelian representations of the knot group ${\pi }_1(X)$ into $SL(3,\mathbb{C})$ which are associat…