Asymptotic faithfulness of the quantum SU(n) representations of the mapping class groups

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Andersen, Jorgen Ellegaard
• 刊物名称: ANNALS OF MATHEMATICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0003-486X
• DOI: 10.4007/annals.2006.163.347
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 347-368
• 关键词: vector-bundles; geometric-quantization; toeplitz quantization; flat connections; INVARIANTS; MODULI; 3-manifolds; hitchins

摘要

We prove that the sequence of projective quantum SU(n) representations of the mapping class group of a closed oriented surface, obtained from the projective flat SU(n)-Verlinde bundles over Teichmuller space, is asymptotically faithful. That is, the intersection over all levels of the kernels of these representations is trivial, whenever the genus is at least 3. For the genus 2 case, this intersection is exactly the order 2 subgroup, generated by the hyper-elliptic involution, in the case of even degree and n = 2. Otherwise the intersection is also trivial in the genus 2 case.