Section: New Results
On -representations of the Whitehead link group
In [9], we describe a family of representations in of the fundamental group of the Whitehead link complement. These representations are obtained by considering pairs of regular order three elements in and can be seen as factorising through a quotient of defined by a certain exceptional Dehn surgery on the Whitehead link. Our main result is that these representations form an algebraic component of the -character variety of .