On the varieties of representations and characters of a family of one-relator subgroups. Their irreducible components

arXiv0805.4716MaRDI QIDQ6209729FDOQ6209729

Authors: Jorge Martín-Morales, Antonio M. Oller Marcén

Publication date: 30 May 2008

Abstract: Let us consider the group

G = < x, y m i d x^{m} = y^{n} >

with

m

and

n

nonzero integers. In this paper, we study the variety of epresentations

R (G)

and the character variety

X (G)

in

S L (2, C)

of the group

G

,obtaining by elementary methods an explicit primary decomposition of the ideal corresponding to

X (G)

in the coordinates

X = t_{x}

,

Y = t_{y}

and

Z = t_{x y}

. As an easy consequence, a formula for computing the number of irreducible components of

X (G)

as a function of

m

and

n

is given. We provide a combinatorial description of

X (G)

and we prove that in most cases it is possible to recover

(m, n)

from the combinatorial structure of

X (G)

. Finally we compute the number of irreducible components of

R (G)

and study the behavior of the projection

t : R (G) l o n g r i g h t a r r o w X (G)

.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38)

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