Algebraic independence in SL(3, C) character varieties of free groups

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Abstract: Let X be the moduli space of SL(3,C) representations of a free group of rank r. In this paper we describe maximal algebraically independent subsets of certain minimal sets of coordinate functions on X. These subsets locally parametrize the moduli space.


In this work are described local parameters (maximal independent coordinates) for the moduli spaces of \(\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{C})\)-representations of free groups of arbitrary rank. Let \(F_r\) be a rank \(r\) (non-abelian) free group. The author defines a complex \(m\)-dimensional representation as a homomorphism of \(F_r\) into \(\mathrm{SL}(m,\mathbb{C})\). The set of these representations \(R_r\), called the \(G=\mathrm{SL}(m,\mathbb{C})\)-representation variety of \(F_r\), is in bijection with \(\mathrm{SL}(m,\mathbb{C})^r\), so it is a smooth affine variety. The \(\mathrm{SL}(m,\mathbb{C})\)-character variety of \(F_r\) is the categorical quotient \(\mathfrak{X}_r=Spec(\mathbb{C}[R_r]^{\mathrm{SL}(m,\mathbb{C})})\) of \(R_r\) by \(\mathrm{SL}(m,\mathbb{C})\). In [J. Algebra 313, No. 2, 782--801 (2007; Zbl 1119.13004)], the author completely described \(\mathfrak{X}_2\) (with \(m=3\)). In this work there are some generalizations of such results to \(\mathfrak{X}_3\) and \(\mathfrak{X}_r\) (again with \(m=3\)). Let \(\mathfrak{gl}(m,\mathbb{C})\) be the Lie algebra of \(GL(m,\mathbb{C})\), then \(R_r\equiv \mathrm{SL}(m,\mathbb{C})^r\subset \mathfrak{gl}(m,\mathbb{C})^r\) is an affine lift of \(\mathfrak{X}_r\), namely \(\Pi: \mathbb{C}[\mathfrak{gl}(m,\mathbb{C})^r]\rightarrow \mathbb{C}[R_r]\) and \(\Pi_G: \mathbb{C}[\mathfrak{gl}(m,\mathbb{C})^r//G]\rightarrow \mathbb{C}[R_r//G]\) are surjective. Procesi described a set of generators \(I\) for \(\mathbb{C}[\mathfrak{gl}(m,\mathbb{C})^r//G]\). The number of these generators depends by an integer, called the degree of nilpotency, which is known only for \(m\leq4\). This result gives, in particular, a set of generators for \(\mathfrak{X}_r\). The main results of his paper [J. Algebra 320, No. 10, 3773--3810 (2008; Zbl 1157.14030)] is a description, when \(m=3\), of certain minimal sets of generators for \(\mathfrak{X}_r\) which are contained in \(I\). A set of local parameters of \(\mathfrak{X}_r\) is a set of \(\dim\,\mathfrak{X}_r=m^2-1\) functions whose differentials give a basis of the cotangent space at a fixed point. Any set of \(m^2-1\) functions in the local coordinate ring of the point can be written in their terms. The main result of this work describes local parameters (when \(m=3\)), which are contained in the set of minimal generator of the previous result in [Zbl 1157.14030]. This result is established by induction on \(r\), and the base of induction is proved in [Zbl 1119.13004]. There is another interesting result. The author says that a set of generators of \(\mathfrak{X}_r\) or of \(\mathfrak{gl}(m,\mathbb{C})^r//G\) is a set of Procesi generators if they are in set \(I\) defined by Procesi plus another condition. In [Zbl 1157.14030] the author shows that minimal Procesi generators of \(\mathfrak{gl}(m,\mathbb{C})^r//G\) projects to minimal Procesi generators of \(\mathfrak{X}_r\). In this work he shows that a maximal set of algebraically independent Procesi generators of \(\mathfrak{X}_r\) can be lifted to a set of algebraically independent Procesi generators of \(\mathfrak{gl}(m,\mathbb{C})^r//G\) which becomes maximal by adding \(m\) fixed (non-Procesi) generators.











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