Abstract

In this chapter, we describe representations of the fundamental group of a knot complement to \(\mathrm {SL}(2;\mathbb {C})\) by giving examples. We also give the definitions of the Chern–Simons invariant and the Reidemeister torsion associated with such a representation. We also give examples of calculation. We will explain relations of these invariants to the asymptotic behavior of the colored Jones polynomial in the next chapter.

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