Singularities and Poisson geometry of certain representation spaces.

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Authors J. Huebschmann

Publication date 2001

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0012184

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson algebrasemi-algebraic varietysingularitiessymplectic stratification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Symplectic structures of moduli spaces (53D30)

Review text

The author studies the singularities of the representation space \({\text{Rep}}(\pi,G)= {\text{Hom}}(\pi,G)/G\), where \(G\) is a compact Lie group and \(\pi\) is the fundamental group of a Riemann surface \(\Sigma\). The main result states that the decomposition of \(\text{Rep}(\pi,G)\) into orbit types is a symplectic stratification, which is given by a Poisson algebra of continuous functions \((C^\infty({\text{Rep}}(\pi,G)), \{\cdot,\cdot\})\). This algebra of functions gives \(\text{Rep}(\pi,G)\) the stucture of a locally semi-algebraic variety. Also, a choice of a complex structure on the Riemann surface \(\Sigma\) induces a Kähler structure on each stratum, and one gets a stratified Kähler space. The paper contains essentially no new results. However, it is a nice survey of the author's own work on the subject [see, e.g., Math. Z. 220, 595--609 (1995; Zbl 0843.58009), Duke Math. J. 80, 737--756 (1995; Zbl 0852.58037), Math. Z. 221, 243--259 (1996; Zbl 0844.58014), Math. Ann. 319, 267--310 (2001; Zbl 1009.53059)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0970.00023].

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