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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• On the Morgan-Shalen compactification of the \(SL(2,\mathbb{C})\) character varieties of surface groups
• Residual properties of fibered and hyperbolic 3-manifolds
• Twisted Alexander polynomials of hyperbolic knots
• Estimating a skein module with 𝑆𝐿₂(ℂ) characters
• Appendix to the paper ``Some uniserial representations of certain special linear groups by P. Sin and J. G. Thompson.
• Regenerating hyperbolic cone structures from Nil
• Quantum traces in quantum Teichmüller theory
• Twisted Alexander polynomials, character varieties and Reidemeister torsions of double branched covers
• Bounded, separating, incompressible surfaces in knot manifolds
• Instanton \(L\)-spaces and splicing
• Characteristic subsurfaces and Dehn filling
• Grothendieck's problem for 3-manifold groups
• Three-manifolds class field theory. (Homology of coverings for a nonvirtually \(b_1\)-positive manifold)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• On the asymptotic expansion of the colored Jones polynomial for torus knots
• 3-manifold groups are virtually residually \(p\)
• A general theory of orbifolds, and essential 2-suborbifolds respecting graph products
• Topological components of spaces of representations
• The universal character ring of the \((-2,2m+1,2n)\)-pretzel link
• Incompressibility criteria for spun-normal surfaces
• Limits of geometrically tame Kleinian groups
• Twisted Alexander polynomials and character varieties of 2-bridge knot groups
• The modular group action on real \(SL(2)\)-characters of a one-holed torus
• Computing boundary slopes of 2-bridge links
• Regenerating hyperbolic cone 3-manifolds from dimension 2
• Lifting representations to covering groups
• The shape of hyperbolic Dehn surgery space
• Plane curves associated to character varieties of 3-manifolds
• Degenerations of the hyperbolic space
• NON-ABELIAN REIDEMEISTER TORSION FOR TWIST KNOTS
• Icosahedral group actions on \(\mathbb{R}{}^ 3\)
• 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)
• Deformations of hyperbolic convex polyhedra and cone-3-manifolds
• Detection of incompressible surfaces in hyperbolic punctured torus bundles
• On the geometry of the slice of trace-free \(SL_2(\mathbb{C})\)-characters of a knot group
• Finite Dehn surgery on knots
• Chern-Simons invariants of 3-manifolds decomposed along tori and the circle bundle over the representation space of \(T^ 2\)
• On limits of quasi-conformal deformations of Kleinian groups
• Commensurability of 1-cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds
• Constructing geometrically infinite groups on boundaries of deformation spaces
• The characteristic toric splitting of irreducible compact 3-orbifolds
• A Jørgensen-Thurston theorem for homomorphisms
• Finite surgeries on three-tangle Pretzel knots
• Shearing hyperbolic surfaces, bending pleated surfaces and Thurston's symplectic form
• On the character variety of group representations in \(\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})\) and \(\text{PSL}(2,\mathbb{C})\)
• Splittings of knot groups
• Connected components of the compactification of representation spaces of surface groups
• On the volume of double twist link cone-manifolds
• Non abelian Reidemeister torsion and volume form on the SU(2)-representation space of knot groups.
• Three-dimensional quantum gravity, Chern-Simons theory, and the \(A\)-polynomial
• On minimal elements for a partial order of prime knots
• Derived algebraic geometry
• Lyapunov exponents for surface group representations
• Character algebras of decorated \(SL_{2}(\mathbb C)\)-local systems
• The universal character ring of some families of one-relator groups
• Character varieties
• Twisted Alexander polynomials and ideal points giving Seifert surfaces
• Skinning maps
• Generalized triangle groups
• Character varieties of higher dimensional representations and splittings of 3-manifolds
• SOME RESULTS ABOUT THE KAUFFMAN BRACKET SKEIN MODULE OF THE TWIST KNOT EXTERIOR
• Characteristic subsurfaces, character varieties and Dehn fillings
• Bounded combinatorics and uniform models for hyperbolic 3-manifolds
• Deformation spaces of Kleinian surface groups are not locally connected
• Length muliplicities of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
• Degenerations of ideal hyperbolic triangulations
• Combinatorial aspects of the character variety of a family of one-relator groups.
• The colored Jones polynomial and the \(A\)-polynomial of knots
• Parametrization of PSL\((2,\mathbb C)\)-representations of surface groups
• Generalized orientations and the Bloch invariant
• Hyperbolic 3-manifolds singular along knots
• AN SL₂(ℂ) ALGEBRO-GEOMETRIC INVARIANT OF KNOTS
• Dehn surgery on knots
• Small knots in Seifert fibered 3-manifolds
• Detecting essential surfaces as intersections in the character variety
• Reduced Bers boundaries of Teichmüller spaces
• The length of unknotting tunnels
• Epimorphism sequences between hyperbolic 3-manifold groups
• Singular sets of holonomy maps for algebraic foliations
• Closed surfaces and character varieties
• The A-polynomial from the noncommutative viewpoint
• Holomorphically parameterized families of subgroups of sl(2, ℂ)
• The Schwarzian derivative and measured laminations on Riemann surfaces
• Pre-Bloch invariants of 3-manifolds with boundary
• Holonomy limits of complex projective structures
• The character variety of a family of one-relator groups
• SL(3, ℂ)-character varieties of two-generator groups
• The \(\pi\)-orbifold group of a link
• Rank 1 character varieties of finitely presented groups
• Bers slices are Zariski dense
• 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

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