Virtual Classes of Representation Varieties of Upper Triangular Matrices via Topological Quantum Field Theories

In this paper, we use a geometric technique developed by González-Prieto, Logares, Muñoz, and Newstead to study the -representation variety of surface groups G(Σ) of arbitrary genus for being the group of upper triangular matrices of fixed rank. Explicitly, we compute the virtual classes in the Röt...

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Published in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Date:2022
Main Authors: Hablicsek, Márton, Vogel, Jesse
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description In this paper, we use a geometric technique developed by González-Prieto, Logares, Muñoz, and Newstead to study the -representation variety of surface groups G(Σ) of arbitrary genus for being the group of upper triangular matrices of fixed rank. Explicitly, we compute the virtual classes in the Röthendieck ring of varieties of the -representation variety and the moduli space of -representations of surface groups for being the group of complex upper triangular matrices of rank 2, 3, and 4 via constructing a topological quantum field theory. Furthermore, we show that in the case of upper triangular matrices, the character map from the moduli space of -representations to the -character variety is not an isomorphism.
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Virtual Classes of Representation Varieties of Upper Triangular Matrices via Topological Quantum Field Theories. Márton Hablicsek and Jesse Vogel. SIGMA 18 (2022), 095, 38 pages
1815-0659
2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: 14D23; 14D21; 14C30; 14D20; 14D07; 57R56
arXiv:2008.06679
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/211809
https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2022.095
In this paper, we use a geometric technique developed by González-Prieto, Logares, Muñoz, and Newstead to study the -representation variety of surface groups G(Σ) of arbitrary genus for being the group of upper triangular matrices of fixed rank. Explicitly, we compute the virtual classes in the Röthendieck ring of varieties of the -representation variety and the moduli space of -representations of surface groups for being the group of complex upper triangular matrices of rank 2, 3, and 4 via constructing a topological quantum field theory. Furthermore, we show that in the case of upper triangular matrices, the character map from the moduli space of -representations to the -character variety is not an isomorphism.
The authors thank Bas Edixhoven and David Holmes for reading a previous version of this paper and giving valuable comments; Άngel González-Prieto, whose papers were the starting point of this research, and who was kind enough to answer any questions; and Sean Lawton for pointing out an error regarding χ. The authors also thank the reviewers for their detailed feedback and invaluable comments. The paper is part of the master’s thesis [33] of the second author.
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Інститут математики НАН України
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Virtual Classes of Representation Varieties of Upper Triangular Matrices via Topological Quantum Field Theories
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title Virtual Classes of Representation Varieties of Upper Triangular Matrices via Topological Quantum Field Theories
title_full Virtual Classes of Representation Varieties of Upper Triangular Matrices via Topological Quantum Field Theories
title_fullStr Virtual Classes of Representation Varieties of Upper Triangular Matrices via Topological Quantum Field Theories
title_full_unstemmed Virtual Classes of Representation Varieties of Upper Triangular Matrices via Topological Quantum Field Theories
title_short Virtual Classes of Representation Varieties of Upper Triangular Matrices via Topological Quantum Field Theories
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