On character varieties with non-connected structure groups

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Abstract: We define character varieties with non-connected structure groups of finitely presented discrete groups and study some basic aspects, such as generic conjugacy classes and relation with fixed points in character varieties with connected structure groups. In the process, we give the classification of the isomorphism classes of the semi-direct products GtimesGamma, with fixed G and Gamma.


Given a connected complex reductive group \(G\) and a Riemann surface \(X\), the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence and the non abelian Hodge correspondence identify three moduli spaces: the moduli space of Higgs \(G\)-bundles on \(X\), the moduli space of flat \(G\)-connections on \(X\), and the \(G\)-character variety of \(X\). In the paper under review, the author studies \(G \rtimes \Gamma\)-character varietes for specific semi-direct products. In particular, for any connected complex reductive group \(G\), any finitely generated discrete group \(\Pi\) and a normal subgroup \(\widetilde{\Pi}\) with quotient group \(\Gamma\), he studies the associated \(G \rtimes \Gamma\)-character variety, the space of admissible \(G \rtimes \Gamma\)-representations of \(\Pi\). He focuses his attention on the relation between this variety and the \(\Gamma\)-fixed points in the usual \(G\)-character variety associated to \(\widetilde{\Pi}\) and he supplies the classification of the isomorphism classes of the semi-direct products \(G \rtimes \Gamma\), with fixed \(G\) and \(\Gamma\). In the case where \(\Pi\) and \(\widetilde{\Pi}\) are fundamental groups of Riemann surfaces, a genericity condition on the conjugacy classes of monodromy is introduced as a sufficient condition for the irreducibility of \(G \rtimes \Gamma\)-representations.











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