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Representation varieties detect essential surfaces

Friedl, Stefan ; Kitayama, Takahiro ; Nagel, Matthias



Abstract

Extending Culler-Shalen theory, Hara and the second author presented a way to construct certain kinds of branched surfaces in a 3-manifold from an ideal point of a curve in the SLn-character variety. There exists an essential surface in some 3-manifold known to be not detected in the classical SL2-theory. We prove that every connected essential surface in a 3-manifold is given by an ideal point of a rational curve in the SLn-character variety for some n.


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