The symplectic nature of fundamental groups of surfaces (Q1063750)

A natural symplectic structure on the space of representations \(\pi\) \(\to G\), where \(\pi\) is the fundamental group of a Riemann surface and G is a semisimple Lie group, is introduced. The author considers this result as a common cause for the existence of a symplectic structure on different moduli spaces associated with Riemann surfaces. For example if \(G=PSL_ 2({\mathbb{R}})\) then the symplectic structure coincides with the Weil- Petersson's one on Teichmüller space.