Varieties of group representations and splittings of 3-manifolds

DOI10.2307/2006973zbMATH Open0529.57005OpenAlexW2052596245MaRDI QIDQ787541FDOQ787541

Authors: Marc Culler, Peter B. Shalen 

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

hyperbolic geometrySeifert fibered spaceramification indexaffine algebraic setcharacters of representations of fundamental group in SL(2,C)finite group of diffeomorphisms of homotopy 3-spherefundamental group of graph of groupsgeneralized Smith conjectureincompressible surfaces in sufficiently large 3-manifoldsregular covering space of closed orientable 3- manifold branched over linksplittings of 3-manifoldssplittings of fundamental group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• A new invariant on hyperbolic Dehn surgery space
• On the AJ conjecture for cables of twist knots
• Tangent cones and local geometry of the representation and character varieties of knot groups
• Hyperbolic cone-manifold structures with prescribed holonomy. I: Punctured tori
• Non-triviality of the \(A\)-polynomial for knots in \(S^3\)
• Peripheral polynomials of hyperbolic knots
• Deformations of the representations of the fundamental groups of three- dimensional manifolds
• Varieties of characters
• Hyperbolic cone-manifold structures with prescribed holonomy. II: Higher genus
• On the local structure of \(SL(2,{\mathbb C})\)-character varieties at reducible characters
• Exceptional surgery and boundary slopes
• Representation theory and the \(A\)-polynomial of a knot
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• Mutation and volumes of knots in S 3
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• Symmetry of Reidemeister torsion on \(SU_2\)-representation spaces of knots
• Algebraic geometric invariants for a class of one-relator groups
• Left orderability for surgeries on the [1,1,2,2,2j] two-bridge knots
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• Λ-trees and their applications
• A criterion for homeomorphism between closed Haken manifolds
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• Bundles and finite foliations
• Geodesic systems of tunnels in hyperbolic 3-manifolds
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• Algorithmic detection and description of hyperbolic structures on closed 3-manifolds with solvable word problem
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• The \(SL(2, \mathbb C)\) Casson invariant for Dehn surgeries on two-bridge knots
• Torsion function on character varieties
• Deformations of dihedral representations
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• A generalisation of the deformation variety
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• Hierarchies for 3-orbifolds
• Analytic families of quantum hyperbolic invariants
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• Reidemeister torsion form on character varieties
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• Representation varieties of solvable groups
• ON THE KINOSHITA–TERASAKA KNOT AND GENERALISED CONWAY MUTATION
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• Adjoint Reidemeister torsions of two-bridge knots
• Geometrically finite kleinian groups and parabolic elements
• Singular intersections of subgroups and character varieties
• The \(C\)-polynomial of a knot
• Ubiquitous quasi-Fuchsian surfaces in cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds
• \(\mathrm{SO}(2n, \mathbb{C})\)-character varieties are not varieties of characters
• A note on the existence of essential tribranched surfaces
• On the Morgan-Shalen compactification of the \(SL(2,\mathbb{C})\) character varieties of surface groups
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• Conway spheres as ideal points of the character variety
• An effective compactness theorem for Coxeter groups.
• Topologie de Gromov équivariante, structures hyperboliques et arbres réels. (Equivariant Gromov topology, hyperbolic structures, and \({\mathbb{R}}\)-trees)

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