Rank 1 character varieties of finitely presented groups

DOI10.1007/S10711-017-0281-6zbMATH Open1390.14187OpenAlexW3101604355MaRDI QIDQ684199FDOQ684199

Authors Caleb Ashley, Jean-Philippe Burelle, Sean Lawton

Publication date 9 February 2018

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08241

zbMATH Keywords

character varietyeffective algorithmfinitely presented grouprank 1 Lie group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Effectivity, complexity and computational aspects of algebraic geometry (14Q20)

Abstract: Let X(F,G) be the G-character variety of F where G is a rank 1 complex affine algebraic group and F is a finitely presentable discrete group. We describe an algorithm, which we implement in Mathematica, SageMath, and in Python, that takes a finite presentation for F and produces a finite presentation of the coordinate ring of X(F,G). We also provide a new description of the defining relations and local parameters of the coordinate ring when F is free. Although the theorems used to create the algorithm are not new, we hope that as a well-referenced exposition with a companion computer program it will be useful for computation and experimentation with these moduli spaces.

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Uses Software

• Mathematica
• SageMath
• SnapPy

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