Roots of Unity and the Character Variety of a Knot Complement
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Using elementary methods we give a new proof of a result concerning the special form of the character of the bounded peripheral element which arises at an end of a curve component of the character variety of a knot complement. 1991 Mathematics subject classification (Amer. Math. Soc): 57 M 25, 57 N 10.
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