The diagonal slice of Schottky space

DOI10.2140/AGT.2017.17.2239MaRDI QIDQ2398918zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Caroline Series, Yasushi Yamashita, Ser Peow Tan

Publication date 21 August 2017

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.6863

zbMATH Keywords

Bowditch conditiondiscrete groupprimitive elementSchottky space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: An irreducible representation of the free group on two generators X,Y into SL(2,C) is determined up to conjugation by the traces of X,Y and XY. We study the diagonal slice of representations for which X,Y and XY have equal trace. Using the three-fold symmetry and Keen-Series pleating rays we locate those groups which are free and discrete, in which case the resulting hyperbolic manifold is a genus-2 handlebody. We also compute the Bowditch set, consisting of those representations for which no primitive elements in the group generated by X,Y are parabolic or elliptic, and at most finitely many have trace with absolute value at most 2. In contrast to the quasifuchsian punctured torus groups originally studied by Bowditch, computer graphics show that this set is significantly different from the discreteness locus.

Review text

Let \(F_2\) be the free group of two generators \(X\) and \(Y\). An irreducible representation \(\rho:F_2\to \operatorname{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})\) is determined up to conjugation by three traces \(x=\operatorname{Tr}\rho(X)\), \(y=\operatorname{Tr}\rho(Y)\) and \(z=\operatorname{Tr}\rho(XY)\). If the representation is faithful, discrete, purely loxodromic and geometrically finite, then the quotient space \(\mathbb{H}^3/\rho(F_2)\) is a genus-two handlebody. The Schottky space \(\mathcal{SCH}\) is described as the set of all such representations. The Bowditch set \(\mathcal{B}\) is described as the set of \((x,y,z)\in \mathbb{C}^3\) corresponding to irreducible representations with some conditions on the traces of the primitive elements of \(F_2\). The set \(\mathcal{B}\) is an open subset of \(\mathbb{C}^3\) on which Out\((F_2)\) acts properly discontinuously. In the paper under review the authors consider the diagonal slice \(\Delta\), namely the locus satisfying \(x=y=z\), of the character variety, and show a figure to compare \(\mathcal{SCH}\cap\Delta\) with \(\mathcal{B}\cap\Delta\) in the \(x\)-plane. For the problem to determine \(\mathcal{B}\), the authors give an algorithm based on the results in [\textit{B. H. Bowditch}, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., III. Ser. 77, No. 3, 697--736 (1998; Zbl 0928.11030); the second author et al., Adv. Math. 217, No. 2, 761--813 (2008; Zbl 1158.57023)]. For the problem to find \(\mathcal{SCH}\cap \Delta\), the authors make use of the order-3 symmetry of a corresponding handlebody and reduce it to a similar problem of determining the Riley slice of \(\mathcal{SCH}\), which is solved by a similar method of pleating rays developed in [\textit{L. Keen} and the first author, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., III. Ser. 69, No.1, 72--90 (1994; Zbl 0807.30031)].

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