Surface Groups are Frequently Faithful
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We show the set of faithful representations of a closed orientable hyperbolic surface group is dense in both irreducible components of the PSL2(K) representation variety, where K = C or R, answering a question of W. Goldman. We also prove the existence of faithful representations into PU(2, 1) with certain nonintegral Toledo invariants.
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