Dynamics on the PSL(2, C)-character variety of a twisted I-bundle

DOI10.4171/GGD/310MaRDI QIDQ2347650zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michelle Lee

Publication date 5 June 2015

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3479

zbMATH Keywords

character varietyouter automorphism grouptwisted interval bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: Let M be a twisted interval bundle over a nonorientable hyperbolizable surface. Let X(M) be the PSL(2,C)-character variety of pi_1(M). We examine the dynamics of the action of Out(pi_1(M)) on X(M), and in particular, we find an open set on which the action is properly discontinuous that is strictly larger than the interior of the deformation space of marked hyperbolic manifolds homotopy equivalent to M. Further, we identify which discrete and faithful representations can lie in a domain of discontinuity for the action of Out(pi_1(M)) on X(M).

Review text

Let \(M\) be a hyperbolizable twisted \(I\)-bundle over a closed nonorientable surface. In the paper under review the author discusses the dynamics of the action of \(\text{Out}(\pi_{1}(M))\) on \({\mathcal X}(M)\), where \({\mathcal X}(M)\) is the \(\text{PSL}(2, {\mathbb C})\)-character variety of \(\pi_{1}(M)\). Let \(\text{AH}(M)\) be the deformation space of conjugacy classes of discrete and faithful representations of \(\pi_{1}(M)\) into \(\text{PSL}(2,{\mathbb C})\). It is shown that there exists an open, \(\text{Out}(\pi_{1}(M))\)-invariant subset \({\mathcal PS}(M),\) called the set of primitive representations, in \({\mathcal X}(M)\) containing the interior of \(\text{AH}(M)\) as well as points on \(\partial \text{AH}(M)\) such that the action of \(\text{Out}(\pi_{1}(M))\) is properly discontinuous on \({\mathcal PS}(M)\). This shows that the dynamics of the outer automorphisms of a nonorientable surface group differ from those of the outer automorphisms of an orientable surface group. Secondly the author proves that in the case where \(M\) is a hyperbolizable twisted \(I\)-bundle, an element \([\rho] \in \text{AH}(M)\) lies in the complement of \({\mathcal PS}(M)\) if and only if there exists a primitive element \(g\) of \(\pi_{1}(M)\) such that \(\rho(g)\) is parabolic and that if \([\rho]\) lies in \(\text{AH}(M)-{\mathcal PS}(M)\), then \([\rho]\) does not lie in any domain of discontinuity for the action of \(\text{Out}(\pi_{1}(M))\) on \({\mathcal X}(M)\). Using this, together with the results of Canary and Storm, the author obtains the following: Let \(M\) be a compact, orientable, hyperbolizable 3-manifold with nonempty incompressible boundary and no toroidal boundary components. Then there exists an \(open, \text{Out}(\pi_{1}(M))\)-invariant set, containing the interior of \(\text{AH}(M)\) and points on \(\partial \text{AH}(M)\), on which the action of \(\text{Out}(\pi_{1}(M))\) is properly discontinuous if and only if M is not a trivial \(I\)-bundle over an orientable hyperbolic surface. Moreover, in the case that \(M\) is not a trivial \(I\)-bundle, this set contains all purely hyperbolic points in \text{AH}(\(M\)).

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