Singularities of free group character varieties

DOI10.2140/PJM.2012.260.149zbMATH Open1264.14064arXiv0907.4720OpenAlexW1977395918WikidataQ125699525 ScholiaQ125699525MaRDI QIDQ1928796FDOQ1928796

Sean Lawton, Carlos Florentino

Publication date: 4 January 2013

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let X be the moduli space of SL(n,C), SU(n), GL(n,C), or U(n)-valued representations of a rank r free group. We classify the algebraic singular stratification of X. This comes down to showing that the singular locus corresponds exactly to reducible representations if there exist singularities at all. Then by relating algebraic singularities to topological singularities, we show the moduli spaces X generally are not topological manifolds, except for a few examples we explicitly describe.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.4720

zbMATH Keywords

singularitiescharacter varietyfree grouprepresentation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Semialgebraic sets and related spaces (14P10) Representation theory of groups (20C99)

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