Canonical representations of surface groups

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2024.199.2.6MaRDI QIDQ6400608zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aaron Landesman, Daniel Litt

Publication date 30 May 2022

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2024.199.2.6

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic algebraic geometry (Diophantine geometry) (11G99) Algebraic geometry (14-XX) Transcendental methods, Hodge theory (algebro-geometric aspects) (14C30) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

Abstract: Let $Sigm{a}_{g,n}$ be an orientable surface of genus $g$ with $n$ punctures. We study actions of the mapping class group of $Sigm{a}_{g,n}$ via Hodge-theoretic and arithmetic techniques. We show that if ${\displaystyle }$ ho: pi_1(Sigma_{g,n}) o GL_r(mathbb{C})${\displaystyle }$ is a representation whose conjugacy class has finite orbit under the mapping class group, and $r<sqrtg+1$, then $ho$ has finite image. This answers questions of Junho Peter Whang and Mark Kisin. We give applications of our methods to the Putman-Wieland conjecture, the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture, and a question of Esnault-Kerz. The proofs rely on non-abelian Hodge theory, our earlier work on semistability of isomonodromic deformations, and recent work of Esnault-Groechenig and Klevdal-Patrikis on Simpson's integrality conjecture for cohomologically rigid local systems.

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