Bending Fuchsian representations of fundamental groups of cusped surfaces in PU(2,1)

DOI10.4310/JDG/1335273392MaRDI QIDQ433892zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Pierre Will

Publication date 8 July 2012

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0925, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1335273392

zbMATH Keywords

higher Teichmüller theoryrepresentation of fundamental groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15)

Abstract: We describe a family of representations of $p{i}_1(Sigma)$ in PU(2,1), where $Sigma$ is a hyperbolic Riemann surface with at least one deleted point. This family is obtained by a bending process associated to an ideal triangulation of $Sigma$. We give an explicit description of this family by describing a coordinates system in the spirit of shear coordinates on the Teichm"uller space. We identify within this family new examples of discrete, faithful and type-preserving representations of $p{i}_1(Sigma)$. In turn, we obtain a 1-parameter family of embeddings of the Teichm"uller space of $Sigma$ in the PU(2,1)-representation variety of $p{i}_1(Sigma)$. These results generalise to arbitrary $Sigma$ the results obtained in a previous paper for the 1-punctured torus.

Review text

The author describes a new family of representations in \(\text{PU}(2,1)\) of the fundamental group \(\pi_1(\Sigma)\) of a hyperbolic Riemann surface \(\Sigma\) with at least one puncture. The family is obtained by a bending process associated to an ideal triangulation of \(\Sigma\), and the representations arise as holonomies of equivariant mappings from the Farey space of \(\Sigma\) to the boundary of the complex hyperbolic plane. The author then identifies within this family a subfamily of discrete, faithful and type-preserving representations of \(\pi_1(\Sigma)\). Finally, he obtains a 1-parameter family of embeddings of the Teichmüller space of \(\Sigma\) in the PU(2,1)-representation variety of \(\pi_1(\Sigma)\).

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