Representation variety of surface groups
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- by Krishna Kishore
- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 146 (2018), 953-959
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/13852
- Published electronically: September 14, 2017
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Abstract:
We give an exact formula for the dimension of the variety of homomorphisms from $S_g$ to any semisimple real algebraic group, where $S_g$ is a surface group of genus $g \geq 2$.References
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Bibliographic Information
- Krishna Kishore
- Affiliation: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research , PUNE, 411008 India
- MR Author ID: 1178357
- Email: venkatakrishna@iiserpune.ac.in
- Received by editor(s): April 15, 2017
- Published electronically: September 14, 2017
- Communicated by: Alexander Braverman
- © Copyright 2017 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 146 (2018), 953-959
- MSC (2010): Primary 20G05; Secondary 20G20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/13852
- MathSciNet review: 3750209