SPHERICAL TRIANGLES AND THE TWO COMPONENTS OF THE SO(3)-CHARACTER SPACE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL GROUP OF A CLOSED SURFACE OF GENUS 2

DOI10.1142/S0129167X11007185MaRDI QIDQ3094468zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Suhyoung Choi

Publication date 25 October 2011

Published in International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3010

zbMATH Keywords

representation of discrete groupsSO(3)SU(2)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Topology and geometry of orbifolds (57R18) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29)

Abstract: We use geometric techniques to explicitly find the topological structure of the space of SO(3)-representations of the fundamental group of a closed surface of genus 2 quotient by the conjugation action by SO(3). There are two components of the space. We will describe the topology of both components and describe the corresponding SU(2)-character spaces by parametrizing them by spherical triangles. There is the sixteen to one branch-covering for each component, and the branch locus is a union of 2-spheres or 2-tori. Along the way, we also describe the topology of both spaces. We will later relate this result to future work into higher-genus cases and the SL(3,R)-representations.

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