Quaternionic hyperbolic Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Quaternionic hyperbolic Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates
zbMATH Open document ID: 1429.57020
author: Krishnendu Gongopadhyay
author: Sagar B. Kalane
published in: Geometriae Dedicata
publication date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.06044
review text: This paper deals with spaces of representations of discrete groups in \(\mathrm{Sp}(2,1)\), the group of isometries of the quaternionic hyperbolic plane. In particular it considers the space of representations of the free group on two generators and of surface groups. There are several types of hyperbolic elements in \(\mathrm{Sp}(2,1)\), according to the number of real eigenvalues. An element is called loxodromic if it has no real (similarity classes of) eigenvalues. Notice that as the ring of the quaternions is not commutative, eigenvalues in \(\mathrm{Sp}(2,1)\) are not well defined, but their similarity or conjugacy class is. The first result of the paper is a precise description of the variety of irreducible representations, up to conjugation, of a free group on two generators in \(\mathrm{Sp}(2,1)\) such that the image of both generators is loxodromic. It is shown to have dimension 21, which is precisely the dimension of \(\mathrm{Sp}(2,1)\). Other situations where the generators are mapped to other kinds of hyperbolic isometries are briefly discussed, in particular their dimensions are strictly less. Then this result is applied to a study of the space of geometric representations of closed orientable surface groups in \(\mathrm{Sp}(2,1)\), where geometric means that the image of curves in a pants decomposition is loxodromic and the restriction to each pair of pants is irreducible. This space has dimension minus the Euler characteristic of the surface times the dimension of \(\mathrm{Sp}(2,1)\). Representations in the groups of isometries of 5- and 4-dimensional hyperbolic spaces are discussed. The authors introduce the so called projective points of an isometry in \(\mathrm{Sp}(2,1)\), that are used in the classification.
reviewed by: Joan Porti
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51M10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20H10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 30F40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 15B33
zbMATH DE Number: 7045070
zbMATH Keywords: hyperbolic space
zbMATH Keywords: quaternions
zbMATH Keywords: free group representations
zbMATH Keywords: character variety
zbMATH Keywords: loxodromic
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W2963875996
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DOI: 10.1007/S10711-018-0347-0
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