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# A closed ball compactification of a maximal component via cores of trees

@inproceedings{Martone2021ACB,
title={A closed ball compactification of a maximal component via cores of trees},
author={Giuseppe Martone and Charles Ouyang and Andrea Tamburelli},
year={2021}
}
• Published 12 October 2021
• Mathematics
We show that, in the character variety of surface group representations into the Lie group PSL(2,R) × PSL(2,R), the compactification of the maximal component introduced by the second author is a closed ball upon which the mapping class group acts. We study the dynamics of this action. Finally, we describe the boundary points geometrically as (A1 × A1, 2)-valued mixed structures.
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