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Knots in Montreal
April 7-8, 2001
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Montreal, QC, Canada

Organizers
S. Boyer, A. S. Sikora

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Grothendieck's reconstruction principle for SL(2) characters
by
Feng Luo
Rutgers University at New brunswick

We show that the characters of representations of the surface group into SL(2, F) can be reconstructed by their restrictions to small subsurfaces. Some potential applications to 3-manifold groups via Heegaard splittings will be discussed.

Date received: March 27, 2001

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