CHARACTER VARIETY OF REPRESENTATIONS OF A FINITELY GENERATED GROUP IN SL2
CHARACTER VARIETY OF REPRESENTATIONS OF A FINITELY GENERATED GROUP IN SL2
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SL2 中有限生成群表示的特征多样性
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10.1142/9789814503921_0014
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1996
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通讯作者:
Kyoji Saito
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作者:
Kyoji Saito
This is a partial exposition of [S4, S5, S6], which study the space of representations of a (finitely generated) group Γ in SL2 and GL2 in an attempt of its application in geometry: Teichmüller spaces, knot theory, hyperbolic manifolds, moduli spaces, · · · , etc. (see for instance, [A], [Be], [Br], [C-C-G-L-S], [C-S], [F-K], [G], [H], [H-L-M], [H-K], [J-W], [K], [Kj], [Ko], [Kr], [Ma], [Mu], [N-Z], [O], [S], [S-S], [T], [W], [We], [Wo], [Y], · · · , etc). For simplicity, we omit the case for GL2 in the present exposition. Let us explain the main result of the present paper. Let Γ be a group. The purpose of the present paper is to introduce the character variety Ch(Γ, SL2) in order to parameterize conjugacy classes of representations of Γ in SL2 in a functorial way. At first, the character variety is introduced as a scheme over Z, independent of the coefficient ring of representations in question. Then, the scaler field is specialized to R to obtain results on representations in SL2(R) and in SU(2) with respect to the classical topology. Let us explain this briefly. Let Hom(Γ, SLn) be the functor R ∈ {commutative rings with 1} 7→ Hom(Γ, SLn(R)) ∈ {sets}. The functor is representable (see §1.3 Lemma) and so, for an abuse of notation, we denote by the same Hom(Γ, SLn) the scheme over Z representing the functor. The group scheme PGLn acts on Hom(Γ, SLn). Whether the universal categorical quotient Hom(Γ, SLn)//PGLn (Mumford [Mu1]) defined over Z exists or not seems to be a hard and unsolved question. Instead of asking directly for the quotient space, we introduce i) the character variety Ch(Γ, SL2) together with its discriminant subvariety DΓ as schemes over Z abstractly, and ii) the PGL2-invariant morphism πΓ : Hom(Γ, SL2) → Ch(Γ, SL2), for which we prove that i) the restriction of πΓ on the complement of π −1 Γ (DΓ) is a principal PGL2-bundle with respect to the etal topology, and ii) the inverse image π Γ (DΓ) is a subfunctor of Hom(Γ, SL2) consisting of abelian or reducible representations. This implies that the complement Hom(Γ, SL2) := Hom(Γ, SL2)\π (DΓ) consists of absolutely irreducible representations, and that Hom(Γ, SL2) has the universal categorical quotient space Ch(Γ, SL2) := Ch(Γ, SL2)\DΓ defined over Z. Then the result is specialized