The topology of parabolic character varieties of free groups

DOI10.1007/s10711-012-9822-1zbMath1295.14042arXiv1204.5924OpenAlexW3103587360MaRDI QIDQ2439340

Marina Logares, Sean Lawton, Indranil Biswas, Carlos A. A. Florentino

Publication date: 14 March 2014

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.5924

zbMATH Keywords

free groupconjugacy classrepresentation spacestrong deformation retractioncomplex algebraic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Topology of real algebraic varieties (14P25) Affine algebraic groups, hyperalgebra constructions (14L17)

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