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Finite trace-coordinate model on the stated loci
Statement
Assume full AC and let have a finite presentation. There is a finite list of words whose trace functions generate the coordinate ring of , so the map is a closed embedding into , with defining ideal the kernel of the induced map . On the irreducible-character locus, equal trace coordinates determine conjugate representations; on the reducible locus, the quotient records the semisimplified diagonal character, not the possibly non-diagonalizable representative.
Statement references
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Full AC and the finite Wirtinger presentation of the knot group.
The character quotient coordinate ring is generated by traces of words (Trace-coordinate algebra for the SL2 character quotient).
The character quotient is affine with finitely generated reduced coordinate algebra, the quotient map is onto, and generators give its actual closed coordinate model (Finite generation of invariants and the affine categorical quotient).
Equal irreducible SL2 trace characters determine conjugacy proves by the actual rank-two matrix-algebra and trace-pairing argument that equal irreducible trace characters are conjugate in , and a reducible representation has the trace character of its diagonal semisimplification. This is a pointwise proof, not an assertion of a representation over a function field.
Proof
By [F2], choose a finite algebra generating list for the character coordinate algebra. Each is a polynomial in finitely many word traces by [F1]. The union of these finitely many word lists is finite; denote it by . Their traces generate an algebra containing all , hence the entire coordinate algebra. This establishes one fixed finite list for the quotient, rather than just a separate list for each function.
Send to . Step 1.1 makes this polynomial-ring map onto the reduced invariant coordinate algebra. Its kernel is therefore radical. The actual affine coordinate-ring construction in [F2] identifies the quotient with the closed zero locus of that kernel in and its point map with the displayed trace-coordinate map. Thus this is the asserted closed embedding with exactly the stated defining ideal.
Equal listed coordinates give equal values of every element of the coordinate algebra by step 1.1. In particular they give equal traces on every group word. The irreducible claim follows from [F3], including preservation of irreducibility. A reducible representation is triangular in an invariant-line basis, and [F3] gives its diagonal semisimplification with identical traces. Since the listed traces are the quotient coordinates, both have exactly the same quotient point. This records the semisimplified character and does not assert conjugacy of a nonsemisimple triangular representation to that diagonal one. All full-AC hypotheses are retained from [F1] and [F2]; the pointwise conjugacy argument adds no choice axiom.
Depends on
Used by
- Figure-eight A-polynomial calculation Example
- A quadratic generic character model specializes on a dense principal open Lemma
- Boundary eigenvalue curve elimination for the A-polynomial Lemma
- Figure-eight character curve and longitude trace Lemma
- Rationality of the adjoint-twisted slope Lemma
- Boundary restriction and the surgery detector Theorem
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Sources
- D. Cooper, M. Culler, H. Gillet, D. D. Long, and P. B. Shalen, Plane curves associated to character varieties of 3-manifolds, §2 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Stephan Tillmann, Varieties associated to 3-manifolds, §§4.2–4.8 (standard reference, not scraped)