Bad irreducible subgroups and singular locus for character varieties in PSL(p, C)

DOI10.1007/S10711-017-0275-4MaRDI QIDQ1663766zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Clément Guérin

Publication date 23 August 2018

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04130

zbMATH Keywords

character varietyrepresentation varietycentralizer of irreducible representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20)

Abstract: We describe the centralizer of irreducible representations from a finitely generated group $Gamma$ to $PSL(p,mathbbC)$ where $p$ is a prime number. This leads to a description of the singular locus (the set of conjugacy classes of representations whose centralizer strictly contains the center of the ambient group) of the irreducible part of the character variety $ch{i}^i(Gamma,PSL(p,mathbbC))$. When $Gamma$ is a free group of rank $lgeq2$ or the fundamental group of a closed Riemann surface of genus $ggeq2$, we give a complete description of this locus and prove that this locus is exactly the set of algebraic singularities of the irreducible part of the character variety.

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