Compactifications of a representation variety.

DOI10.1515/JGT.2010.092MaRDI QIDQ2882820zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benjamin Martin

Publication date 7 May 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1515/jgt.2010.092

zbMATH Keywords

compactificationslinear algebraic groupsrepresentation varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05)

Review text

Let \(F\) be a group with finite set of generators \(\Delta\). Let \(G\) be a linear algebraic group over an algebraically closed field \(k\) and let \(R(F,G)\) be the variety of representations from \(F\) to \(G\). Choose an embedding of \(G\) into some \(\mathrm{PGL}_n(k)\) and let \(\overline G\) be the closure in \(\mathbb P(M_n(k))\) of the image of \(G\). The author defines a compactification \(R_\Delta(F,\overline G)\) of \(R(F,G)\). It is functorial in \((F,\Delta\cup\{1\})\). He shows that one really needs \(\Delta\) in order to get functoriality. As a particular case he studies the functor for a group extension \(1\to N\to F\to Q\to 1\).

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