Representations of surface groups with finite mapping class group orbits

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Authors Indranil Biswas, Thomas Koberda, Ramanujan Santharoubane, Mahan Mj

Publication date 16 April 2018

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.03622, http://nyjm.albany.edu/j/2018/24-13.html

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zbMATH Keywords

character varietymapping class groupsurface grouprepresentation variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Representations of groups as automorphism groups of algebraic systems (20F29)

Abstract: Let $(S,,ast)$ be a closed oriented surface with a marked point, let $G$ be a fixed group, and let $hocolonp{i}_1(S)longrightarrowG$ be a representation such that the orbit of $ho$ under the action of the mapping class group $Mod(S,,ast)$ is finite. We prove that the image of $ho$ is finite. A similar result holds if $p{i}_1(S)$ is replaced by the free group $F_n$ on $ngeq2$ generators and where $Mod(S,,ast)$ is replaced by $Aut(F_n)$. We thus resolve a well-known question of M. Kisin. We show that if $G$ is a linear algebraic group and if the representation variety of $p{i}_1(S)$ is replaced by the character variety, then there are infinite image representations which are fixed by the whole mapping class group.

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