Character varieties

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2012-05448-1zbMath1291.14022arXiv0902.2589OpenAlexW3037288887MaRDI QIDQ2841399

Adam S. Sikora

Publication date: 25 July 2013

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.2589

zbMATH Keywords

irreducible representationLagrangian submanifoldcompletely reducible representation3-manifoldcharacter varietyrepresentation varietygoldman symplectic form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20)

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