Tuesday Seminar on Topology

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Date, time & place Tuesday 17:00 - 18:30 056Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Organizer(s) HABIRO Kazuo, KAWAZUMI Nariya, KITAYAMA Takahiro, SAKASAI Takuya

2025/12/02

17:30-18:30   Room #hybrid/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Pre-registration required. See our seminar webpage.
Shinpei Baba (University of Osaka)
Bending Teichmüller spaces and character varieties (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
Let S be a closed oriented surface of genus at least two. The Teichmüller space of S can be regarded as the space of discrete faithful representations from the fundamental group of S into PSL(2, R). Given a simple closed curve on S with positive weight (or more generally, a measured lamination), we can "bend" the repsentation along the curve by an angle equal to the weight, and obtain a representation of the surface group into PSL(2, C). This bending deformation induces a mapping from the Teichmüller space into the space of representations of the surface group into PSL(2, C). We discuss some interesting properties of this mapping.
If time permits, we also discuss a complexification of this mapping.
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