Connected components of Isom(H^3)-representations of non-orientable surfaces

DOI10.1007/S10711-022-00682-XMaRDI QIDQ2123138zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Juan Luis Durán Batalla

Publication date 8 April 2022

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14880

zbMATH Keywords

orientation reversing isometries of \(\mathbb{H}^3\)representation varietiesStiefel-Whitney class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: Let $N_k$ denote the closed non-orientable surface of genus $k$. In this paper we study the behaviour of the `square map' from the group of isometries of hyperbolic 3-space to the subgroup of orientation preserving isometries. We show that there are $2^{k+1}$ connected components of representations of $p{i}_1(N_k)$ in Isom$(mathbb{H}^3)$, which are distinguished by the Stiefel-Whitney classes of the associated flat bundle.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a closed surface and \(G\) a Lie group. Let \(\pi_{1}(M)\) denote the fundamental group of the surface. The set of homomorphisms \(\phi:\pi_{1}(M)\to G\) is called the variety of representations of the fundamental group of \(M\) in \(G\) and denoted hom(\(\pi_{1}(M),G\)). The goal of the paper under review is to find topological invariants which classify the connected components of hom(\(\pi_{1}(M),G\)), for \(M\) non-orientable and \(G = \mathrm{Isom}(\mathbb H^3)\cong\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb C)\rtimes\mathbb Z_2.\) The author proves the following result: Let \(N_k\) denote the closed non-orientable surface of genus \(k.\) The representation variety hom(\(\pi_{1}(N_k),G\)) has \(2^{k+1}\) connected components. In the proof he uses the so-called `square map' \([A]\in \mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb C)\mapsto A^2\in\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb C\)). Moreover, it is proved that the above connected components are distinguished by the Stiefel-Whitney classes of the associated flat \(G\)-bundle over \(M.\) In this sense, these cohomological classes are constant on connected components.

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