Connected components of Isom(H3)-representations of non-orientable surfaces

Let N denote the closed non-orientable surface of genus k. In this paper we study the behaviour of the 'square map' from the group of isometries of hyperbolic 3-space to the subgroup of orientation preserving isometries. The properties of the 'square map' and other related maps s...

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Autor: Duran Batalla, Juan Luis|||0000-0002-6558-3046
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:258269
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/258269
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1007/s10711-022-00682-x
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Representation varieties
Stiefel-Whitney class
Orientation reversing isometries of H3
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Sumario:Let N denote the closed non-orientable surface of genus k. In this paper we study the behaviour of the 'square map' from the group of isometries of hyperbolic 3-space to the subgroup of orientation preserving isometries. The properties of the 'square map' and other related maps serve as a technical step towards the counting of the connected components of the variety of representations of π(N) in Isom(H). We show that the variety of representations hom(π(N), Isom (H)) has 2 connected components, which are distinguished by the Stiefel-Whitney classes of the associated flat bundle.