The topology of Baumslag–Solitar representations

DOI10.1142/S1793525320500065MaRDI QIDQ4997970zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maxime Bergeron, Lior Silberman

Publication date 1 July 2021

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04046

zbMATH Keywords

Baumslag-Solitar groupcomplex reductive algebraic groupdeformation retractionmaximal compact subgrouprepresentation varietysolvable group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation theory of groups (20C99) Generalizations of solvable and nilpotent groups (20F19) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20) Homotopy theory (55P99)

Abstract: Let $Gamma=langlea,b|a{b}^p{a}^{-1}=b^{q}angle$ be a Baumslag--Solitar group and $G$ be a complex reductive algebraic group with maximal compact subgroup $K<G$. We show that, when $p$ and $q$ are relatively prime with distinct absolute values, there is a strong deformation retraction retraction of $Hom(Gamma,G)$ onto $Hom(Gamma,K)$.

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