%0 Journal Article %A Muñoz, Vicente %A Porti, J. %T Geometry of the SL(3,ℂ)-character variety of torus knots. %D 2016 %@ 1472-2747 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24493 %X Let G be the fundamental group of the complement of the torus knot of type (m, n). It has a presentation G = <x, y | xm = yn>. We find a geometric description of the character variety X(G) of characters of representations of G into SL(3,ℂ), GL(3,ℂ) and PGL(3,ℂ). %~