Goldman form, flat connections and stable vector bundles (Q2674718)

The paper lies inbetween the theory of projective connections over Riemann surfaces and that of flat connections in vector bundles on them. The main object of the first theory is a holomorphic affine bundle \(\mathcal{P}_g\rightarrow \mathcal{T}_g\) of projective connections over the Teichmüller space \(\mathcal{T}_g\) of compact Riemann surfaces of genus \(g\geq 2\). This affine bundle admits a family of global holomorphic sections, which allow to identify \(\mathcal{P}_g\) with the cotangent bundle \(T^*\mathcal{T}_g\) of the Teichmüller space and they correspond to projective connections with quasi-Fuchsian monodromy. As a result, the monodromy defines a map from \(\mathcal{P}_g\) to the \(\mathrm{PSL}_2\mathbb{C}\)- character variety, on which we have a natural symplectic form, called the Goldman form. The pullback of this form to \(\mathcal{P}_g\) under the monodromy map coincide with the pullback of the symplectic form on the cotangent bundle \(T^*\mathcal{T}_g\), the Liouville form. The purpose of this paper is to obtain an analogue of this theorem for the affine bundle \(\mathcal{A}\rightarrow \mathcal{N}\) of flat connections on the moduli space \(\mathcal{N}\) of vector bundles on a compact Riemann Surface.The celebrated Narasimhan-Seshadri correspondence asserts that the moduli space of vector bundles is real-analytic isomorphic to the character variety of unitary representations of the fundamental group of the surface. Moreover, it provides a a canonical section of the affine bundle \(\mathcal{A}\), which establishes an isomorphism \(A\cong T^*\mathcal{N}\). On the other hand, taking monodromy defines a map from \(\mathcal{A}\) to the \(\mathrm{GL}_n\mathbb{C}\)-character variety, on which one has again the Goldman form. Given the similarities with the Teichmüller setting, it is natural to wonder whether the pullback of the Goldman form coincides with the ``pullback of the symplectic form on \(T^*\mathcal{N}\)''. However, as opposed to Teichmüller theory, the bundle of flat connections has no global holomorphic sections to establish a complex-analytic isomorphism. Nevertheless, one can define a family of local holomorphic sections, which are call `quasi-unitary', and consider the family of local pullbacks of the holomorphic Liouville form on \(T^*\mathcal{N}\). The author shows that these local pullbacks determine a global holomorphic symplectic form on \(\mathcal{A}\) which plays the role of the pullback of the Liouville form in in the Teichmüller setting. The main result of the paper is to show that the form constructed in this way actually coincide with the pullback of the Goldman form.