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Abstract
We consider a family of ribbon 2-knots with trivial Alexander polynomial. We give nonabelian SL(2, C)-representations from the groups of these knots, and then calculate the twisted Alexander polynomials associated to these representations, which allows us to classify this family of knots.
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