The topology of parabolic character varieties of free groups

DOI10.1007/s10711-012-9822-1zbMath1295.14042arXiv1204.5924MaRDI QIDQ2439340

Marina Logares, Sean Lawton, Indranil Biswas, Carlos A. A. Florentino

Publication date: 14 March 2014

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.5924

zbMATH Keywords

free group; conjugacy class; representation space; strong deformation retraction; complex algebraic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

14L30: Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients)

20E05: Free nonabelian groups

14P25: Topology of real algebraic varieties

14L17: Affine algebraic groups, hyperalgebra constructions

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