Tropicalization of group representations
Tropicalization of group representations
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群体表征的热带化
DOI:
10.2140/agt.2008.8.279
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发表时间:
2007
影响因子:
0.7
通讯作者:
D. Alessandrini
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作者:
D. Alessandrini
In this paper we give an interpretation to the boundary points of the compactification of the parameter space of convex projective structures on an n‐manifold M . These spaces are closed semi-algebraic subsets of the variety of characters of representations of 1.M/ in SLnC1.R/. The boundary was constructed as the “tropicalization” of this semi-algebraic set. Here we show that the geometric interpretation for the points of the boundary can be constructed searching for a tropical analogue to an action of 1.M/ on a projective space. To do this we need to construct a tropical projective space with many invertible projective maps. We achieve this using a generalization of the Bruhat‐Tits buildings for SLnC1 to nonarchimedean fields with real surjective valuation. In the case nD 1 these objects are the real trees used by Morgan and Shalen to describe the boundary points for the Teichmuller spaces. In the general case they are contractible metric spaces with a structure of tropical projective spaces. 57M60, 57M50, 51E24, 57N16