Moduli spaces of flat connections on 2-manifolds, cobordism, and Witten's volume formulas

1997/07/24 by Eckhard Meinrenken, Meinrenken, Eckhard, Chris Woodward +1
Mathematics · #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #dg-ga #math.DG

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.dg-ga/9707018

20 pages, AMS-LaTeX, amssymb,eepic,epic

arxiv created 1997/07/24 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We discuss Witten's formulas for the symplectic volumes of moduli spaces of flat connections on 2-manifolds from the viewpoint of Hamiltonian cobordism as introduced by Ginzburg-Guillemin-Karshon.

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