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SU(2)-representation spaces for two-bridge knot groups

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This work was done partly in 1986 when I was a guest of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, and partly during the spring term 1987 while being a visiting professor

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Burde, G. SU(2)-representation spaces for two-bridge knot groups. Math. Ann. 288, 103–119 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01444524

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