A new identity for SL(2,C)-characters of the once punctured torus group

DOI10.4310/MRL.2015.V22.N2.A8MaRDI QIDQ2347757zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hengnan Hu, Ying Zhang, Ser Peow Tan

Publication date 8 June 2015

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3904

zbMATH Keywords

Markoff mapMcShane identityonce-punctured torussimple closed geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: We obtain new variations of the original McShane identity for those SL(2,C)-representations of the once punctured torus group which satisfy the Bowditch conditions, and also for those fixed up to conjugacy by an Anosov mapping class of the torus and satisfying the relative Bowditch conditions.

Review text

The original McShane identity is the following; \[ \sum_{\gamma}\frac{1}{1+e^{l(\gamma)}}=\frac{1}{2}, \] where the sum is over all simple closed geodesics in a once punctured torus with \(l(\gamma)\) the length of \(\gamma\). After Greg McShane first proved this identity in 1991, it has been generalized in many different cases by many authors. Among them, Brian Bowditch gave an alternative proof of the original McShane identity using Markoff triples and extended it to type-preserving representations of the once punctured torus group into \(SL(2,\mathbb{C})\) satisfying the so-called Bowditch conditions. See the references [\textit{B. H. Bowditch}, Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 28, No. 1, 73--78 (1996; Zbl 0854.57009)] and [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 77, No. 3, 697--736 (1998; Zbl 0928.11030)] in the paper. The main result of the paper under review is that the authors obtain a new identity for general irreducible representations of the once punctured torus group into \(SL(2,\mathbb{C})\) satisfying the Bowditch condition. In addition, they obtain a variation of the identity when the representation is fixed (up to conjugation) by an Anosov mapping class satisfying the relative Bowditch condition.

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