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Flat connections and the commutator map for SU(2)

Symplectic Geometry 2021-02-08 v4

Abstract

We study the topology of the SU(2)-representation variety of the compact oriented surface of genus 2 with one boundary component about which the holonomy is a generator of the center of SU(2).

Cite

@article{arxiv.2005.07390,
  title  = {Flat connections and the commutator map for SU(2)},
  author = {Nan-Kuo Ho and Lisa C. Jeffrey and Paul Selick and Eugene Z. Xia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.07390},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

32 pages, 2 figures; typos corrected, references added, final version

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