On the Morgan-Shalen compactification of the SL(2,C) character varieties of surface groups

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A gauge theoretic description of the Morgan-Shalen compactification of the $\SL$ character variety of the fundamental group of a hyperbolic surface is given in terms of a natural compactification of the moduli space of Higgs bundles via the Hitchin map.
17 pages. Latex. 4 figures

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Differential Geometry, 58E20 (primary), 20E08 (secondary)

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/77510

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https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9810034
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