Varieties of representations of finitely generated groups

DOI10.1090/memo/0336zbMath0598.14042OpenAlexW1984208744MaRDI QIDQ3731763

Andy R. Magid, Alexander Lubotzky

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0336

zbMATH Keywords

orbitsrational representations of pro-affine algebraic grouprepresentation of finitely generated grouptangent spaces of the representation varietiestwist operation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Classical groups (algebro-geometric aspects) (14L35)

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