The Topology of the Relative Character Varieties of a Quadruply-Punctured Sphere

DOI10.1080/10586458.1999.10504391zbMath0957.57003OpenAlexW1985817277MaRDI QIDQ4254564

William M. Goldman, Robert L. Benedetto

Publication date: 29 March 2001

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.em/1047477115

zbMATH Keywords

surfacefundamental groupcharacter varietyrepresentation variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Representation theory of groups (20C99) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

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