Varieties of group representations and splittings of 3-manifolds

DOI10.2307/2006973zbMath0529.57005OpenAlexW2052596245MaRDI QIDQ787541

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2006973

zbMATH Keywords

ramification index hyperbolic geometry Seifert fibered space affine algebraic set characters of representations of fundamental group in SL(2,C)finite group of diffeomorphisms of homotopy 3-sphere fundamental group of graph of groups generalized Smith conjecture incompressible surfaces in sufficiently large 3-manifolds regular covering space of closed orientable 3- manifold branched over link splittings of 3-manifolds splittings of fundamental group

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Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C07) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

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