Ergodicity of mapping class group actions on representation varieties. I: Closed surfaces

DOI10.1007/S00014-002-8343-1zbMATH Open1004.22010arXivmath/0006098OpenAlexW1984081023MaRDI QIDQ699682FDOQ699682

Eugene Z. Xia, Doug Pickrell

Publication date: 25 September 2002

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that the mapping class group of a closed surface acts ergodically on connected components of the representation variety corresponding to a connected compact Lie group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0006098

zbMATH Keywords

compact Lie groupergodic theorymoduli spacemapping class groupfundamental group of surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups as automorphisms of other structures (22F50)

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