A counterexample to the simple loop conjecture for PSL(2, R)

DOI10.2140/PJM.2014.269.425MaRDI QIDQ482393zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Kathryn Mann

Publication date 30 December 2014

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3203

zbMATH Keywords

character varietyPSL(2,R)representationrepresentation spacesimple loop conjecturesurface group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16)

Abstract: In this note, we give an explicit counterexample to the simple loop conjecture for representations of surface groups into PSL(2,R). Specifically, we show that for any surface with negative Euler characteristic and genus at least 1, there are uncountably many non-conjugate, non-injective homomorphisms of its fundamental group into PSL(2,R) that kill no simple closed curve (nor any power of a simple closed curve). This result is not new -- work of Louder and Calegari for representations of surface groups into SL(2, C) applies to the PSL(2,R) case, but our approach here is explicit and elementary.

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