Examples of non-trivial roots of unity at ideal points of hyperbolic 3-manifolds

DOI10.1016/S0040-9383(98)00035-4zbMATH Open0923.57004arXivmath/9801064OpenAlexW2066871525WikidataQ127884043 ScholiaQ127884043MaRDI QIDQ1292687FDOQ1292687

Authors: Nathan M. Dunfield 

Publication date: 1 November 1999

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper gives examples of hyperbolic 3-manifolds whose SL(2,C) character varieties have ideal points whose associated roots of unity are not 1 or -1. This answers a question of Cooper, Culler, Gillet, Long, and Shalen as to whether roots of unity other than 1 and -1 occur.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9801064

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zbMATH Keywords

character varietiesincompressible surfacesrepresentations of the fundamental group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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