Mapping class group dynamics on Aff(C)-characters

DOI10.5802/AIF.3024MaRDI QIDQ332199zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Selim Ghazouani

Publication date 27 October 2016

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7489

zbMATH Keywords

character varietycomplex affine groupcomplex branched affine structureergodic theorymapping class groupTorelli group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: We prove that in genus bigger than $2$, the mapping class group action on $mathrmAff(mathbbC)$-characters is ergodic. This implies that almost every representation $p{i}_{1}SlongrightarrowmathrmAff(mathbbC)$ is the holonomy of a branched affine structure on $S$, where $S$ is a closed orientable surface of genus $ggeq2$.

Review text

Let \(\Gamma\) be the fundamental group of a compact orientable surface \(S\) of genus \(g>1\) and let \(G\) be a finite dimensional reductive Lie group. One can look at the character variety \(\chi(\Gamma,G)\) which is defined to be the quotient \(\mathrm{Hom}(\Gamma,G)//G.\) The mapping class group of \(S\) acts on \(\chi(\Gamma,G)\) by precomposition.NEWLINENEWLINEIn this paper the author studies the case \(G =\mathrm{Aff}(\mathbb C).\) Since \(\mathrm{Aff}(\mathbb C)\) is solvable, the tools from symplectic geometry developed in the reductive case do not apply in this setting.NEWLINENEWLINEMain Theorem. The mapping class group action on \(\chi(\Gamma,\mathrm{Aff}(\mathbb C))\) is ergodic.NEWLINENEWLINEThe original motivation was to study the holonomy of branched affine structures on surfaces.NEWLINENEWLINEThis implies that almost every representation \(\pi_{1} S \rightarrow \mathrm{Aff}(\mathbb C)\) is the holonomy of a branched affine structure on the surface \(S.\)

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• Dynamics of the mapping class group action on the variety of \(\text{PSL}_2\mathbb C\) characters
• The modular action on \(\mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{R})\)-characters in genus 2
• Ergodicity of the mapping class group action on Deroin-Tholozan representations
• The mapping class group action on -character varieties
• Holonomy of complex projective structures on surfaces with prescribed branch data

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