On the Morgan-shalen Compactification of the Sl(2,c) Character Varieties of Surface Groups
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A gauge theoretic description of the Morgan-Shalen compactification of the SL(2, C) character variety of the fundamental group of a hyperbolic surface is given in terms of a natural compactification of the moduli space of Higgs bundles via the Hitchin map.
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تاریخ انتشار 1998