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A survey on spaces of homomorphisms to Lie groups

Algebraic Topology 2016-09-28 v2

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to give an exposition of topological properties of spaces of homomorphisms from certain finitely generated discrete groups to Lie groups GG, and to describe their connections to classical representation theory, as well as other structures. Various properties are given when GG is replaced by a small category, or the discrete group is given by a right-angled Artin group.

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@article{arxiv.1412.5668,
  title  = {A survey on spaces of homomorphisms to Lie groups},
  author = {Frederick R. Cohen and Mentor Stafa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.5668},
  year   = {2016}
}

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18 pages