The Topology of the Relative Character Varieties of a Quadruply-Punctured Sphere

نویسندگان

  • Robert L. Benedetto
  • William M. Goldman
چکیده

Let M be a quadruply-punctured sphere with boundary components A; B; C; D. The SL(2; C)-character variety of M consists of equivalence classes of homomorphisms of 1 (M) ?! SL(2; C) and can be identiied with a quartic hypersurface in C 7. corresponding to representations with tr((A)) = a, tr((B)) = b, tr((C)) = c, tr((D)) = d is a cubic surface in C 3. We determine the singular

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Experimental Mathematics

دوره 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1999