Character varieties of free groups are Gorenstein but not always factorial

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2016.01.044MaRDI QIDQ286556zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sean Lawton, Christopher Manon

Publication date 20 May 2016

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.01210

zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacecharacter varietyfree groupGorensteinreductiveUFD

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Special types (Cohen-Macaulay, Gorenstein, Buchsbaum, etc.) (13H10) Homological conditions on associative rings (generalizations of regular, Gorenstein, Cohen-Macaulay rings, etc.) (16E65) Divisibility, noncommutative UFDs (16U30)

Abstract: Fix a rank g free group F and a connected reductive complex algebraic group G. Let X(F,G) be the G-character variety of F. When the derived subgroup DG in G is simply connected we show that X(F,G) is factorial (which implies it is Gorenstein), and provide examples to show that when DG is not simply connected X(F,G) need not even be locally factorial. Despite the general failure of factoriality of these moduli spaces, using different methods, we show that X(F,G) is always Gorenstein.

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