%0 Journal Article
%T The variety of characters in PSL(2,C)
%A Michael Heusener
%A Joan Porti
%J Mathematics
%D 2003
%I arXiv
%X We study some basic properties of the variety of characters in PSL(2,C) of a finitely generated group. In particular we give an interpretation of its points as characters of representations. We construct 3-manifolds whose variety of characters has arbitrarily many components that do not lift to SL(2,C). We also study the singular locus of the variety of characters of a free group.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0302075v2