Haken manifolds and representations of their fundamental groups in SL(2,C)

DOI10.1016/0166-8641(88)90019-3MaRDI QIDQ1104597zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kimihiko Motegi

Publication date 1988

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-8641(88)90019-3

zbMATH Keywords

bending constructionHaken manifolds whose fundamental groups have a finite number of representations in SL(2,\({bbfC})\)SL(2,\({bbfC})\)-character varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Review text

Culler and Shalen have shown that if the fundamental group of a compact orientable irreducible 3-manifold M has a positive-dimensional SL(2,\({\mathbb{C}})\)-character variety, then M is a Haken manifold. We show however that the converse is not true. That is there exist infinitely many Haken manifolds whose fundamental groups have a finite number of representations in SL(2,\({\mathbb{C}})\) up to equivalence. In particular, they have 0-dimensional SL(2,\({\mathbb{C}})\)-character varieties. This construction relates with the bending construction.

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