Topological components of spaces of representations

DOI10.1007/BF01410200zbMath0655.57019OpenAlexW1976694540MaRDI QIDQ1109378

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/143609

zbMATH Keywords

semisimple Lie group number of connected components PSL(2,${\mathbb{R}})$$n$-fold covering group of PSL(2,${\mathbb{R}})$fundamental group of a closed oriented surface locally isomorphic to PSL(2,${\mathbb{C}})$space of all representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Special aspects of infinite or finite groups (20F99) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22) Lie groups (22E99)

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