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The real spectrum compactification of character varieties: characterizations and applications

Geometric Topology 2020-05-04 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

We announce results on a compactification of general character varieties that has good topological properties and give various interpretations of its ideal points. We relate this to the Weyl chamber length compactification and apply our results to the theory of maximal and Hitchin representations.

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@article{arxiv.2005.00120,
  title  = {The real spectrum compactification of character varieties: characterizations and applications},
  author = {Marc Burger and Alessandra Iozzi and Anne Parreau and Marie Beatrice Pozzetti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.00120},
  year   = {2020}
}