The complement of the Bowditch space in the SL(2,C) character variety

Shawn Pheng Keong Ng, Ser Peow Tan

Let $\mathcal{X}$ be the space of type-preserving $\SL(2,C)$ characters of the punctured torus $T$. The Bowditch space ${\mathcal{X}}_{BQ}$ is the largest open subset of ${\mathcal…