Carlos Florentino
Carlos Florentino | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 May 1968 |
| Nationality | Portuguese and Spanish |
| Alma mater | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Known for | Topology and Geometry of Character varieties; Geometric Quantization |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, Physics |
| Institutions | Instituto Superior Técnico Universidade de Lisboa Stony Brook University |
| Thesis | On Schottky bundles over Riemann surfaces (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Leon Takhtajan |
| Doctoral students | Susana Ferreira Jaime Silva Carlos Sotillo Javier Orts |
Carlos Florentino (born 1 May 1968), is a Portuguese mathematician who works in Geometry, Topology and Mathematical Physics. He did his undergraduate work in Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico, a Master at Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Stony Brook University, USA, under the supervision of Leon Takhtajan. He is now a full professor at the University of Lisbon and current coordinator of the Center for Mathematical Studies.[1]
One of his important results is the deformation retraction of the so-called -character varieties of some finitely presented groups (such as free groups and free abelian groups) into the space of equivalence classes of its -representations, for a reductive group and its maximal compact subgroup . [2][3]
References
- ^ "Center for Mathematical Studies".
- ^ C. Florentino and S. Lawton, The topology of moduli spaces of free group representations, Math. Ann. 345 (2009), 453–489.
- ^ C. Florentino, S. Lawton and J. Silva Mixed Hodge structures on character varieties of nilpotent groups, Rev. Mat. Complutense 38 (2024), 121–148.