Representations of surface groups with universally finite mapping class group orbit

DOI10.4310/MRL.2022.V29.N6.A7arXiv1907.03941OpenAlexW2960812094MaRDI QIDQ6043368FDOQ6043368

Authors: Brian Lawrence, Daniel Litt 

Publication date: 5 May 2023

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $Sigm{a}_{g,n}$ be the orientable genus $g$ surface with $n$ punctures, where $2-2g-n<0$. Let ${\displaystyle }$ ho: pi_1(Sigma_{g,n}) o GL_m(mathbb{C})${\displaystyle }$ be a representation. Suppose that for each finite covering map $f:Sigm{a}_{g^{\prime },n^{\prime }}oSigm{a}_{g,n}$, the orbit of (the isomorphism class of) $f^{\ast }(ho)$ under the mapping class group $MCG(Sigm{a}_{g^{\prime },n^{\prime }})$ of $Sigm{a}_{g^{\prime },n^{\prime }}$ is finite. Then we show that $ho$ has finite image. The result is motivated by the Grothendieck-Katz $p$-curvature conjecture, and gives a reformulation of the $p$-curvature conjecture in terms of isomonodromy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.03941

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.) (14D05) Rigid analytic geometry (14G22) (p)-adic cohomology, crystalline cohomology (14F30) Monodromy; relations with differential equations and (D)-modules (complex-analytic aspects) (32S40)

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• The rank two \(p\)-curvature conjecture on generic curves
• Varieties of representations of fundamental groups of compact nonorientable surfaces
• Equivariant Picard groups of the moduli spaces of some finite abelian covers of the Riemann sphere

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