On weakly maximal representations of surface groups

DOI10.4310/JDG/1488503002zbMATH Open1373.30047arXiv1305.2620OpenAlexW2964266655WikidataQ115166366 ScholiaQ115166366MaRDI QIDQ524873FDOQ524873

Authors: Gabi Ben Simon, Marc Burger, Tobias Hartnick, Alessandra Iozzi, A. Wienhard 

Publication date: 26 April 2017

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

Abstract: We introduce and study a new class of representations of surface groups into Lie groups of Hermitian type, called {em weakly maximal} representations. We prove that weakly maximal representations are discrete and injective and we describe the structure of the Zariski closure of their image. Furthermore we prove that the set of weakly maximal representations is a closed subset of the representation variety and describe its relation to other geometrically significant subsets of the representation variety.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.2620

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zbMATH Keywords

representation varietiesfundamental groupscompact surfaceshigher Teichmüller theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10)

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