On the topology of character varieties of once-punctured torus bundles

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Authors: Stephan Tillmann, Youheng Yao 

Publication date: 29 June 2022

Abstract: This paper presents, for the special case of once-punctured torus bundles, a natural method to study the character varieties of hyperbolic 3-manifolds that are bundles over the circle. The main strategy is to restrict characters to the fibre of the bundle, and to analyse the resulting branched covering map. This allows us to extend results of Steven Boyer, Erhard Luft and Xingru Zhang. Both $SL(2,mathbbC)$-character varieties and $PSL(2,mathbbC)$-character varieties are considered. As an explicit application of these methods, we build on work of Baker and Petersen to show that there is an infinite family of hyperbolic once-punctured bundles with canonical curves of $PSL(2,mathbbC)$-characters of unbounded genus.

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