Pentagon representations and complex projective structures on closed surfaces

DOI10.5802/AIF.3528zbMATH Open1520.57025arXiv1911.04181OpenAlexW2985213235MaRDI QIDQ6043796FDOQ6043796

Authors: Thomas le Fils 

Publication date: 24 May 2023

Published in: Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We define a class of representations of the fundamental group of a closed surface of genus $2$ to $mathrm{PSL}_2(mathbbC)$: the pentagon representations. We show that they are exactly the non-elementary $mathrm{PSL}_2(mathbbC)$-representations of surface groups that do not admit a Schottky decomposition, i.e. a pants decomposition such that the restriction of the representation to each pair of pants is an isomorphism onto a Schottky group. In doing so, we exhibit a gap in the proof of Gallo, Kapovich and Marden that every non-elementary representation of a surface group to $mathrm{PSL}_2(mathbbC)$ is the holonomy of a projective structure, possibly with one branched point of order $2$. We show that pentagon representations arise as such holonomies and repair their proof.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04181

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zbMATH Keywords

holonomyfundamental groupprojective structurecompact Riemann surfacesurface group representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Classification theory of Riemann surfaces (30F20)

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