The variety of characters in \(\text{PSL}_2(\mathbb{C})\) (Q2493408)
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The variety of characters in \(\text{PSL}_2(\mathbb{C})\) (English)
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12 June 2006
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The \(\text{SL}_ 2(\mathbb C)\)- and \(\text{PSL}_ 2(\mathbb C)\)-character varieties of the fundamental groups of hyperbolic \(3\)-manifolds have played an important role in \(3\)-dimensional topology. In this article, the authors give a careful and fully referenced development of the algebraic theory of \(\text{PSL}_ 2(\mathbb C)\)-representation varieties and their associated character varieties. As an application, they show that for every \(n\), there is a hyperbolic punctured-torus bundle over \(S^1\) whose \(\text{PSL}_ 2(\mathbb C)\)-character variety has at least \(n\) irreducible one-dimensional components whose characters do not lift to \(\text{SL}_ 2(\mathbb C)\). Additional results about singular sets of character varieties are obtained, in particular, the singular set is computed for the \(\text{PSL}_ 2(\mathbb C)\)-character variety of a free group \(F_n\), \(n\geq 3\).
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variety
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representation
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\(\text{SL}_ 2(\mathbb C)\)
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\(\text{PSL}_ 2(\mathbb C)\) character
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invariant
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lift
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singular set
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free group
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