scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1307063

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Authors Kyoji Saito

Publication date 2 February 2000

zbMATH Keywords

character varietiesfinitely generated groupsrepresentations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60)

Review text

This is a partial exposition of other papers of the author [see, e.g., Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser. 200, 255-288 (1994; Zbl 0843.14011)], which study the space of representations of a (finitely generated) group \(\Gamma\) in \(\text{SL}_2\) and \(\text{GL}_2\) in an attempt of its application in geometry. The purpose of the present paper is to introduce the character variety \(\text{Ch}(\Gamma,\text{SL}_2)\) in order to parametrize conjugacy classes of representations of \(\Gamma\) in \(\text{SL}_2\) in a functorial way. The principal \(\text{PGL}_2\)-bundle structures on \(\Hom^*(\Gamma,\text{SL}_2)\) over \(\text{Ch}^*(\Gamma,\text{SL}_2)\) with respect to the étale and to the classical topology are formulated. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0901.00037].

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