Parameterizing Hitchin components

DOI10.1215/0012794-2838654zbMATH Open1326.32023arXiv1209.3526OpenAlexW3098255364MaRDI QIDQ488068FDOQ488068

Authors: Francis Bonahon, Guillaume Dreyer 

Publication date: 23 January 2015

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct a geometric, real analytic parametrization of the Hitchin component Hit_n(S) of the PSL_n(R)-character variety R_{PSL_n(R)}(S) of a closed surface S. The approach is explicit and constructive. In essence, our parametrization is an extension of Thurston's shear coordinates for the Teichmueller space of a closed surface, combined with Fock-Goncharov's coordinates for the moduli space of positive framed local systems of a punctured surface. More precisely, given a maximal geodesic lamination lambda in S with finitely many leaves, we introduce two types of invariants for elements of the Hitchin component: shear invariants associated with each leaf of lambda; and triangle invariants associated with each component of the complement S-lambda. We describe identities and relations satisfied by these invariants, and use the resulting coordinates to parametrize the Hitchin component.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3526

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zbMATH Keywords

positive representationgeodesic laminationAnosov representationHitchin componentHitchin representationshear invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15)

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