The Topology of the Relative Character Varieties of a Quadruply-Punctured Sphere

DOI10.1080/10586458.1999.10504391MaRDI QIDQ4254564zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert Benedetto, William M. Goldman

Publication date 29 March 2001

Published in Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.em/1047477115, https://eudml.org/doc/230654

zbMATH Keywords

surfacecharacter varietyfundamental grouprepresentation variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Representation theory of groups (20C99)

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