Virtual classes of representation varieties of upper triangular matrices via topological quantum field theories

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2022.095MaRDI QIDQ2105555zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Márton Hablicsek, Jesse Vogel

Publication date 8 December 2022

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06679

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zbMATH Keywords

character varietyGrothendieck ring of varietiesrepresentation varietytopological quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transcendental methods, Hodge theory (algebro-geometric aspects) (14C30) Variation of Hodge structures (algebro-geometric aspects) (14D07) Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Stacks and moduli problems (14D23) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56)

Abstract: In this paper, we use a geometric technique developed by Gonz'alez-Prieto, Logares, Mu~noz, and Newstead to study the $G$-representation variety of surface groups $mathfrak{X}_G(Sigm{a}_g)$ of arbitrary genus for $G$ being the group of upper triangular matrices of fixed rank. Explicitly, we compute the virtual classes in the Grothendieck ring of varieties of the $G$-representation variety and the moduli space of $G$-representations of surface groups for $G$ being the group of complex upper triangular matrices of rank $2$, $3$, and $4$ via constructing a topological quantum field theory. Furthermore, we show that in the case of upper triangular matrices the character map from the moduli space of $G$-representations to the $G$-character variety is not an isomorphism.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a complex affine algebraic group and \(\Gamma\) a finitely generated discrete group. Then the set of group homomorphisms \(\mathrm{Hom}(\Gamma, G)\) has the structure of a complex affine variety. Let \(B_n\subset \mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{C})\) be the Borel group of upper-triangular matrices, and \(\Sigma_g\) a closed orientable surface of genus \(g\). The first main theorem of this interesting paper explicitly computes the Grothendieck class of \(\mathrm{Hom}(\pi_1(\Sigma_g), B_n)\) for \(n=2,3,4\) showing the class to be a polynomial over \(\mathbb{Z}\) in the the class \([\mathbb{A}^1_{\mathbb{C}}]\). The authors then show that the categorical quotient of \(\mathrm{Hom}(\pi_1(\Sigma_g), B_n)\) by the conjugation action of \(B_n\) exists and that quotient is isomorphic to \((\mathbb{A}^1_{\mathbb{C}}-\{0\})^{2ng}\). In general, the categorical quotient of \(\mathrm{Hom}(\Gamma, G)\) by \(G\)-conjugation is called the \(G\)-character variety of \(\Gamma\). There is a related moduli space, called the ``variety of characters in [\textit{S. Lawton} and \textit{A. S. Sikora}, Algebr. Represent. Theory 20, No. 5, 1133--1141 (2017; Zbl 1400.14123)] when \(G\) admits a faithful representation. Often, but not always, these two moduli spaces are isomorphic. The second main theorem of the paper under review shows that, with respect to the canonical representation \(B_n\subset \mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{C})\), the \(B_n\)-character variety of \(\pi_1(\Sigma_g)\) is \textit{not} isomorphic to the corresponding variety of characters.

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