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

Daskalopoulos, G.
Dostoglou, S. (Stamatis A.)
Wentworth, R.
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1998-10
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A gauge theoretic description of the Morgan-Shalen compactification of the SL(2, C) 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.
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arXiv:math/9810034v1
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