Timeline for Why do people study representations of 3-manifold groups into $SL(n,\mathbb{C})$?
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| Apr 26, 2016 at 20:20 | comment | added | Daniel Barter | One thing you could say is that a homomorphism $\pi_1(M) \to SL(n,\mathbb{C})$ is the same as a flat connection on a principal $SL(n,\mathbb{C})$-bundle over $M$. Flat connections are important in physics? | |
| S Apr 25, 2016 at 23:17 | history | suggested | Sean Lawton |
This post concerns character varieties, hence the tag. Since spherical geometry is not explicitly part of the post and only 5 tags are allowed, I removed that one.
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| Apr 25, 2016 at 17:31 | answer | added | Tom Mrowka | timeline score: 14 | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 13:55 | answer | added | Sean Lawton | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 3:15 | answer | added | Neil Hoffman | timeline score: 11 | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 0:27 | comment | added | YCor | Hitchin's theorem's even more beautiful :) | |
| Mar 27, 2016 at 17:51 | answer | added | Liviu Nicolaescu | timeline score: 15 | |
| Mar 27, 2016 at 16:31 | comment | added | Lee Mosher | If you had asked this question solely about surfaces (rather then 3-manifolds), I would have answered by pointing to the beautiful theorem of Hitchen, and the subsequent literature on the Hitchen component and associated geometric structures on surfaces and on bundles over surfaces. | |
| Mar 27, 2016 at 16:12 | history | asked | Daniel Moskovich | CC BY-SA 3.0 |