Random Unitary Representations of Surface Groups II: The large n limit

Publication date 8 January 2021

Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30) Free probability and free operator algebras (46L54)

Abstract: Let

S i g m a_{g}

be a closed surface of genus

g g e q 2

and

G a m m a_{g}

denote the fundamental group of

S i g m a_{g}

. We establish a generalization of Voiculescu's theorem on the asymptotic

*

-freeness of Haar unitary matrices from free groups to

G a m m a_{g}

. We prove that for a random representation of

G a m m a_{g}

into

m a t h s f S U (n)

, with law given by the volume form arising from the Atiyah-Bott-Goldman symplectic form on moduli space, the expected value of the trace of a fixed non-identity element of

G a m m a_{g}

is bounded as

n o i n f t y

. The proof involves an interplay between Dehn's work on the word problem in

G a m m a_{g}

and classical invariant theory.

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