DEGENERATION OF HITCHIN REPRESENTATIONS ALONG INTERNAL SEQUENCES

Abstract

Let S be a closed, oriented topological surface of genus at least 2, and denote its fundamental group by Γ. The Teichmüller space of S, denoted T (S), is the space of marked hyperbolic metrics on S. From a representation theoretic point of view, one can think of T (S) as a component of the space of conjugacy classes