{
  "id": "1104.4492",
  "version": "v3",
  "published": "2011-04-22T19:44:32.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-04-28T19:37:47.000Z",
  "title": "Non-faithful representations of surface groups into SL(2,C) which kill no simple closed curve",
  "authors": [
    "Daryl Cooper",
    "Jason Fox Manning"
  ],
  "comment": "23 pages, 3 figures. Version 3 incorporates additional referee comments, especially improving the appendix",
  "categories": [
    "math.GT",
    "math.GR"
  ],
  "abstract": "We give counterexamples to a version of the simple loop conjecture in which the target group is PSL(2,C). These examples answer a question of Minsky in the negative.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v3",
      "updated": "2014-04-28T19:37:47.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "simple closed curve",
      "surface groups",
      "non-faithful representations",
      "simple loop conjecture",
      "target group"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 23,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2011arXiv1104.4492C"
    }
  }
}