Poisson structure on character varieties

DOI10.1007/S40316-020-00138-2MaRDI QIDQ2022915zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Indranil Biswas, Lisa C. Jeffrey

Publication date 30 April 2021

Published in Annales Mathématiques du Québec (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13210

zbMATH Keywords

character varietyPoisson structuresurface groupsymplectic form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17)

Abstract: We show that the character variety for a $n$-punctured oriented surface has a natural Poisson structure.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a complex reductive Lie group and \(X\) a compact connected oriented surface. Atiyah, Bott and Goldman showed that the character space \(\mathcal{R}(X,G)\) of completely reducible flat \(G\)-connections on \(X\) has a canonical symplectic structure. The ``punctured version of this space is very interesting: Pick a finite number of points \(x_1,\ldots,x_m\) in \(X\) and put \(X_0 = X \setminus \{x_1,\ldots,x_m\}\). Using loop groups, M. Audin showed that \(\mathcal{R}(X_0,G)\) is a Poisson manifold. Its symplectic leaves are the following: For every \(i=1,\ldots,m\) fix a conjugacy class \(C_i\) in \(G\). When \(X\) has a complex structure, the space \(\mathcal{R}(X_0,G)_C\) of flat \(G\) connections on \(X_0\) whose monodromy around each \(x_i\) lies in \(C_i\), is the moduli space of semistable parabolic \(G_{\mathbb{C}}\)-bundles (here \(G_{\mathbb{C}}\) is the complexification of \(G\)). It is well known that \(\mathcal{R}(X_0,G)_C\) has a symplectic structure. The authors give a simpler construction of the Poisson structure of \(\mathcal{R}(X_0,G)\), without using loop groups. To this end, they use a priori the symplectic structure of \(\mathcal{R}(X_0,G)_C\).

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