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

2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/77510A 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 figuresDifferential Geometry58E20 (primary), 20E08 (secondary)On the Morgan-Shalen compactification of the SL(2,C) character varieties of surface groupstext