A survey on spaces of homomorphisms to Lie groups

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-31580-5_15MaRDI QIDQ4608487zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mentor Stafa, F. R. Cohen

Publication date 20 March 2018

Published in Springer INdAM Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5668

zbMATH Keywords

representation varietyspace of homomorphismssmall kategory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to topological groups (22-02) General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15)

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to give an exposition of topological properties of spaces of homomorphisms from certain finitely generated discrete groups to Lie groups $G$, and to describe their connections to classical representation theory, as well as other structures. Various properties are given when $G$ is replaced by a small category, or the discrete group is given by a right-angled Artin group.

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