Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana

, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp 511–526 | Cite as

Mutants of compactified representations revisited

  • Matthias Franz
  • Santiago López de Medrano
  • John Malik
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Abstract

We show that the mutants of compactified representations constructed by Franz and Puppe can be written as intersections of real quadrics involving division algebras and as generalizations of polygon spaces. We also show that these manifolds are connected sums of products of spheres.

Mathematics Subject Classification

Primary 57S25 Secondary 14P25 17A35 57R91 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Matthias Franz
    • 1
  • Santiago López de Medrano
    • 2
  • John Malik
    • 3
  1. 1.Department of MathematicsUniversity of Western OntarioLondonCanada
  2. 2.Instituto de MatemáticasUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMéxicoMexico
  3. 3.Department of MathematicsUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada

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