Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1994-04-28
Duke Math. J. 77 (1995) 407-429
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
20 pages, Latex file
Scientific paper
We use group cohomology and the de Rham complex on simplicial manifolds to give explicit differential forms representing generators of the cohomology rings of moduli spaces of representations of fundamental groups of 2-manifolds. These generators are constructed using the de Rham representatives for the cohomology of classifying spaces $BK$ where $K$ is a compact Lie group; such representatives (universal characteristic classes) were found by Bott and Shulman. Thus our representatives for the generators of the cohomology of moduli spaces are given explicitly in terms of the Maurer-Cartan form. This work solves a problem posed by Weinstein, who gave a corresponding construction (following Karshon and Goldman) of the symplectic forms on these moduli spaces. We also give a corresponding construction of equivariant differential forms on the extended moduli space $X$, which is a finite dimensional symplectic space equipped with a Hamiltonian action of $K$ for which the symplectic reduced space is the moduli space of representations of the 2-manifold fundamental group in $K$. (This paper is in press in Duke Math. J. The substance of the text is unaltered; inor changes and corrections have been made to the file to correspond to the version that will be published.)
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