On type-preserving representations of the four-punctured sphere group

DOI10.2140/GT.2016.20.1213MaRDI QIDQ280925zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tian Yang

Publication date 10 May 2016

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5061

zbMATH Keywords

character varietymapping class grouplengths coordinatestype-preserving representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and automorphic functions (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F35) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: We give counterexamples to a question of Bowditch that if a non-elementary type-preserving representation $ho:p{i}_1(Sigm{a}_{g,n})ightarrowPSL(2;mathbbR)$ of a punctured surface group sends every non-peripheral simple closed curve to a hyperbolic element, then must $ho$ be Fuchsian. The counterexamples come from relative Euler class $pm1$ representations of the four-punctured sphere group. We also show that the mapping class group action on each non-extremal component of the character space of type-preserving representations of the four-punctured sphere group is ergodic, which confirms a conjecture of Goldman for this case. The main tool we use is Kashaev-Penner's lengths coordinates of the decorated character spaces.

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