A Fano compactification of the SL₂(C) free group character variety

DOI10.1007/S10711-023-00867-YMaRDI QIDQ6183205zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joseph Cummings, Christopher Manon

Publication date 26 January 2024

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02766

zbMATH Keywords

character varietyreflexive polytopeFanotoric degeneration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fano varieties (14J45) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Compactifications; symmetric and spherical varieties (14M27) Character varieties (14M35)

Abstract: We show that a certain compactification $mathfrak{X}_g$ of the $mathrm{SL}_2(mathbbC)$ free group character variety $mathcalX(F_g,mathrm{SL}_2(mathbbC))$ is Fano. This compactification has been studied previously by the second author, and separately by Biswas, Lawton, and Ramras. Part of the proof of this result involves the construction of a large family of integral reflexive polytopes.

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