Incompressible solvable representations of surface groups

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2017.07.009MaRDI QIDQ2401748zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jason DeBlois, Daniel Gómez

Publication date 4 September 2017

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.01007

zbMATH Keywords

representationssimple loop conjecturesurface groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy theory (55P99) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: The fundamental group of every surface that is not the projective plane or Klein bottle has a representation to a torsion-free group of upper-triangular matrices in SL(2,R) with no simple loop (i.e. a nontrivial element representing a simple closed curve) in the kernel.

Review text

Let \(S\) be a compact surface with or without boundary. A representation (i.e. a homomorphism) from the fundamental group \(\pi_1(S)\) to another group is called \textit{incompressible} if its kernel contains no simple loop, i.e. a non-trivial element representing a simple closed curve in \(S\). The authors show: Theorem: If \(S\) is not the projective plane or the Klein bottle then there is an incompressible representation of \(\pi_1(S)\) to a torsion-free group of upper triangular matrices in \(\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb R)\), which therefore injects under the quotient map to \(\mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb K)\) or \(\mathrm{PGL}_2(\mathbb K)\), for \(\mathbb K = \mathbb R\) or \(\mathbb C\).

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