Group cohomology construction of the cohomology of moduli spaces of flat connections on 2-manifolds

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-95-07712-6zbMATH Open0870.57013arXivalg-geom/9404012OpenAlexW1977746277MaRDI QIDQ1895992FDOQ1895992

Lisa C. Jeffrey

Publication date: 17 September 1995

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use group cohomology and the de Rham complex on simplicial manifolds to give explicit differential forms representing generators of the cohomology rings of moduli spaces of representations of fundamental groups of 2-manifolds. These generators are constructed using the de Rham representatives for the cohomology of classifying spaces $BK$ where $K$ is a compact Lie group; such representatives (universal characteristic classes) were found by Bott and Shulman. Thus our representatives for the generators of the cohomology of moduli spaces are given explicitly in terms of the Maurer-Cartan form. This work solves a problem posed by Weinstein, who gave a corresponding construction (following Karshon and Goldman) of the symplectic forms on these moduli spaces. We also give a corresponding construction of equivariant differential forms on the extended moduli space $X$, which is a finite dimensional symplectic space equipped with a Hamiltonian action of $K$ for which the symplectic reduced space is the moduli space of representations of the 2-manifold fundamental group in $K$. (This paper is in press in Duke Math. J. The substance of the text is unaltered; inor changes and corrections have been made to the file to correspond to the version that will be published.)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9404012

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zbMATH Keywords

cohomologymoduli spacerepresentationscharacteristic classesflat connections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29)

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