Character varieties and harmonic maps to R-trees

dc.creatorDaskalopoulos, Georgios
dc.creatorDostoglou, Stamatis
dc.creatorWentworth, Richard
dc.date1998-10-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:26:19Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:26:19Z
dc.descriptionWe show that the Korevaar-Schoen limit of the sequence of equivariant harmonic maps corresponding to a sequence of irreducible $SL_2({\mathbb C})$ representations of the fundamental group of a compact Riemannian manifold is an equivariant harmonic map to an ${\mathbb R}$-tree which is minimal and whose length function is projectively equivalent to the Morgan-Shalen limit of the sequence of representations. We then examine the implications of the existence of a harmonic map when the action on the tree fixes an end.
dc.description12 pages. Latex. to appear in Math. Res. Lett
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/9810033
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/9810033
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/77509
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.subjectGeometric Topology
dc.titleCharacter varieties and harmonic maps to R-trees
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