A note on nilpotent representations

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2015-0027MaRDI QIDQ905404zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maxime Bergeron, Lior Silberman

Publication date 19 January 2016

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04357

zbMATH Keywords

character varietynilpotent groupreductive algebraic grouprepresentation variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Nilpotent groups (20F18) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20)

Abstract: Let $Gamma$ be a finitely generated nilpotent group and let G be a complex reductive algebraic group. The representation variety $mathrmHom(Gamma,G)$ and the character variety $mathrmHom(Gamma,G)//G$ each carry a natural topology, and we describe the topology of their connected components in terms of representations factoring through quotients of $Gamma$ by elements of its lower central series.

Review text

Let \(\Gamma\) be a finitely generated nilpotent group and let \(G\) be a complex reductive algebraic group. The space \(\mathrm{Hom}(\Gamma,G)\) is an affine algebraic set and a complex variety admitting an Hausdorff topology. In this paper, the topology of the connected components of \(\mathrm{Hom}(\Gamma,G)\) is investigated by studying the embedding \(\mathrm{Hom}(\Gamma/\Gamma_{(i)},G) \rightarrow \mathrm{Hom}(\Gamma,G)\), where \(\Gamma_{(i)}\) is the \(i\)-th term of the lower central series of \(\Gamma\). While some results proved in the paper indicate many similarities between representation spaces of abelian and non-abelian nilpotent groups, the latter have a much richer topology than the former (\(\mathrm{Hom}(\mathbb{Z}^{r},\mathrm{SL}_{n}\mathbb{C})\), (\(\mathrm{Hom}(\mathbb{Z}^{r},\mathrm{Sp}_{2n}\mathbb{C})\) and the corresponding character varieties are connected for all values of \(r\) and \(n\)). For instance, the following result is proved (Theorem 1.5): Let \(G\) be the group of complex points of a (possibly disconnected) reductive algebraic group. If \(\Gamma\) is a finitely generated nilpotent group which surjects onto a finite non-abelian subgroup of \(G\), then \(\mathrm{Hom}(\Gamma,G)\) and \(\mathrm{Hom}(\Gamma,G)/\!\!/G\) are both disconnected topological spaces.

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