Examples of non-trivial roots of unity at ideal points of hyperbolic 3-manifolds (Q1292687)

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Examples of non-trivial roots of unity at ideal points of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
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    Examples of non-trivial roots of unity at ideal points of hyperbolic 3-manifolds (English)
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    1 November 1999
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    Constructing incompressible surfaces in 3-manifolds via degeneration of hyperbolic structures was introduced by \textit{M. Culler} and \textit{P. B. Shalen} [Ann. Math., II. Ser. 117, 109-146 (1983; Zbl 0529.57005)]. The construction starts with a complex curve of representations of the fundamental group of the considered 3-manifold into \(\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})\). The surfaces are constructed from ideal points of this curve. It was shown by \textit{D. Cooper, M. Culler, H. Gillet, D. D. Long}, and \textit{P. B. Shalen} [Invent. Math. 118, No. 1, 47-84 (1994; Zbl 0842.57013)], that certain ideal points have roots of unity associated to them which reflect the topology of the associated surfaces. In all known examples, these roots are always \(\pm 1\). In the present paper, the author constructs examples of hyperbolic 3-manifolds whose \(\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})\) character varieties have ideal points for which the associated roots of unity are not \(\pm 1\).
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    character varieties
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    incompressible surfaces
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    representations of the fundamental group
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