This survey reviews some facts about about the representation and character varieties of knot groups into with are presented. This concerns mostly joint work of the author with L. Ben Abdelghani, O. Medjerab, V. Muños and J. Porti.
Mots clés : knot group, representation variety, character variety
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Heusener, Michael. Some recent results about the $\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{C})$–representation spaces of knot groups. Séminaire de théorie spectrale et géométrie, Tome 32 (2014-2015), pp. 137-161. doi : 10.5802/tsg.307. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.5802/tsg.307/
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