Trace Coordinates on Fricke spaces of some simple hyperbolic surfaces

zbMATH Open1175.30043arXiv0901.1404MaRDI QIDQ3629607FDOQ3629607

Authors: William M. Goldman 

Publication date: 2 June 2009

Abstract: The conjugacy class of a generic unimodular 2 by 2 complex matrix is determined by its trace, which may be an arbitrary complex number. In the nineteenth century, it was known that a generic pair (X,Y) of such pairs is determined up to conjugacy by the triple of traces (tr(X),tr(Y),tr(XY), which may be an arbitary element of C^3. This paper gives an elementary and detailed proof of this fact, which was published by Vogt in 1889. The folk theorem describing the extension of a representation to a representation of the index-two supergroup which is a free product of three groups of order two, is described in detail, and related to hyperbolic geometry. When n > 2, the classification of conjugacy-classes of n-tuples in SL(2,C) is more complicated. We describe it in detail when n= 3. The deformation spaces of hyperbolic structures on some simple surfaces S whose fundamental group is free of rank two or three are computed in trace coordinates. (We only consider the two orientable surfaces whose fundamental group has rank 3.)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.1404

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zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupcharacter ringhyperbolic structureFricke space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deformations of complex structures (32G05) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions) (30F45)

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