2 papers
math.GT2026
On Intersection of Character Varieties Associated to Dehn Fillings of the Whitehead Link and Its Generalization
Jiayu Wan, Charles Katerba
The canonical component of the character variety of a hyperbolic 2-bridge link complement M is an algebraic surface, from the work of Thurston. If we fix a boundary component T of…
math.GT2025
Extending Azumaya algebras associated to arithmetic 2-bridge links
Jiayu Wan
Let Γ be a finitely generated group and consider the set of all characters of representations of Γ into SL2(C). This set, denoted by X(Γ), admits an algebraic structure and is call…