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Fox calculus, symplectic forms, and moduli spaces

Author(s): Valentino Zocca
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 350 (1998), 1429-1466.
MSC (1991): Primary 58D27
Correction(s): Tran. Amer. Math. Soc. 350 (1998), no. 8, 3407.
MathSciNet review: 1443899
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Abstract: An ``open pre-symplectic form'' on surfaces with boundary and glueing formulae are provided to symplectically integrate the symplectic form on the deformation space of representations of the fundamental group of a Riemann surface into a reductive Lie group $G$.

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Additional Information:

Valentino Zocca
Affiliation: Mathématiques, bât. 425, Université Paris XI, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France
Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
Email: anz@math.umd.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-98-02052-2
PII: S 0002-9947(98)02052-2
Received by editor(s): May 15, 1996
Additional Notes: Supported by a C.N.R. grant.
Copyright of article: Copyright 1998, American Mathematical Society




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