SL(3,C)-character variety of the figure eight knot

This page contains Mathematica notebooks and Sage worksheets for the paper:

M. Heusener, V. Muñoz, and J. Porti: The SL(3,C)-character variety of the figure eight knot, arXiv:1505.04451

Mathematica notebooks

• Non_distinguished_component_V1.nb. This notebook computes the equations of the non-distinguished component V_1.
• Non_distinguished_component_V2.nb. This notebook computes the equations of the non-distinguished component V_2.
• Distinguished_component_V0.nb. This notebook computes the equations of the distinguished component V_0.

Sage worksheets

• Radical_I0.sws. This worksheet contains the calculation of the radical starting with the equation in Theorem 1.2.(3).
• Domain_g.sws. This worksheet contains the singular set of the map g:W \to X in the last section.