INTERSECTION COHOMOLOGY OF REPRESENTATION SPACES OF SURFACE GROUPS

DOI10.1142/S0129167X06003424zbMATH Open1091.55003arXivmath/0101256OpenAlexW2043583717MaRDI QIDQ3379527FDOQ3379527

Young-Hoon Kiem

Publication date: 6 April 2006

Published in: International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show by studying the symplectic geometry of the extended moduli space that the intersection cohomology of the representation space $Hom(p{i}_1(Sigma),G)/G$ for a simply connected compact Lie group $G$ is naturally embedded into the $G$ equivariant cohomology of $Hom(p{i}_1(Sigma),G)$ where $Sigma$ is a closed Riemann surface. This enables us to compute the intersection cohomology as a graded vector space with intersection pairing, in terms of the equivariant cohomology ring. The case where $G=SU(2)$ -- the moduli space of rank 2 holomorphic vector bundles of even degree -- is discussed in detail.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0101256

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zbMATH Keywords

symplectic reductionintersection cohomologysurface grouprepresentation space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Intersection homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N33)

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