Convex foliated projective structures and the Hitchin component for PSL₄(R)

DOI10.1215/00127094-2008-040zbMATH Open1148.57027OpenAlexW1965521857MaRDI QIDQ943563FDOQ943563

Authors: Olivier Guichard, A. Wienhard 

Publication date: 9 September 2008

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article we give a geometric interpretation of the Hitchin component for PSL(4,R) in the representation variety of a closed oriented surface of higher genus. We show that representations in the Hitchin component are precisely the holonomy representations of properly convex foliated projective structures on the unit tangent bundle of the surface. From this we also deduce a geometric description of the Hitchin component the symplectic group PSp(4,R).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702184

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zbMATH Keywords

projective structureunit tangent bundleHitchin componentrepresentation variety of a Riemann surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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