Exceptional discrete mapping class group orbits in moduli spaces

DOI10.1515/FORM.2003.048MaRDI QIDQ4435245zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eugene Z. Xia, Joseph P. Previte

Publication date 27 November 2003

Published in Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0108092

zbMATH Keywords

flat connectionfundamental group of surfacemapping class groupmoduli space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: Let $M$ be a four-holed sphere and $Gamma$ the mapping class group of $M$ fixing $partialM$. The group $Gamma$ acts on the space ${mathcalM}_{mathcalB}(SU(2))$ of SU(2)-gauge equivalence classes of flat SU(2)-connections on $M$ with fixed holonomy on $partialM$. We give examples of flat SU(2)-connections whose holonomy groups are dense in SU(2), but whose $Gamma$-orbits are discrete in ${mathcalM}_{mathcalB}(SU(2))$. This phenomenon does not occur for surfaces with genus greater than zero.

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