Arithmetic subspaces of moduli spaces of rank one local systems

We show that closed subsets of the character variety of a complex variety with negatively weighted first homology, which are $p$-adically integral and stabilized by an arithmetic Galois action, are motivic.

Keywords

character variety, Galois invariant loci

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

Primary 14F99. Secondary 11G99.

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The first author is supported by the Einstein program, the second author by the SFB 1085 Higher Invariants.

Received 25 February 2019

Published 2 October 2020