Holomorphic volume forms on representation varieties of surfaces with boundary

DOI10.5802/AHL.35zbMATH Open1443.53049arXiv1804.07504OpenAlexW3103056367MaRDI QIDQ779669FDOQ779669

Joan Porti, Michael Heusener

Publication date: 14 July 2020

Published in: Annales Henri Lebesgue (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For closed and oriented hyperbolic surfaces, a formula of Witten establishes an equality between two volume forms on the space of representations of the surface in a semisimple Lie group. One of the forms is a Reidemeister torsion, the other one is the power of the Atiyah-Bott-Goldman symplectic form. We introduce an holomorphic volume form on the space of representations of the circle, so that, for surfaces with boundary, it appears as peripheral term in the generalization of Witten's formula. We compute explicit volume and symplectic forms for some simple surfaces and for the Lie group SL(N,C).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07504

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zbMATH Keywords

representation varietiesReidemeister torsionhyperbolic surfacevolume formsSteinberg map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic structures of moduli spaces (53D30) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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