The parallelogram identity on groups and deformations of the trivial character in SL₂(C)

DOI10.5802/JEP.117MaRDI QIDQ2295989zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Julien Marché, Maxime Wolff

Publication date 17 February 2020

Published in Journal de l’École polytechnique — Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06293

zbMATH Keywords

character varietydeformation theorygroup homologypolynomial functions on groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Derived series, central series, and generalizations for groups (20F14) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Homological methods in group theory (20J05)

Abstract: We describe on any finitely generated group G the space of maps G->C which satisfy the parallelogram identity, f(xy)+f(xy^{-1})=2f(x)+2f(y). It is known (but not well-known) that these functions correspond to Zariski-tangent vectors at the trivial character of the character variety of G in SL_2(C). We study the obstructions for deforming the trivial character in the direction given by f. Along the way, we show that the trivial character is a smooth point of the character variety if dim H_1(G,C)<2 and not a smooth point if dim H_1(G,C)>2.

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