Mathematics – Differential Geometry
Scientific paper
2003-04-21
Algebraic groups and arithmetic, 375--407, Tata Inst. Fund. Res., Mumbai, 2004.
Mathematics
Differential Geometry
Scientific paper
The SL(2)-character variety X of a closed surface M enjoys a natural complex-symplectic structure invariant under the mapping class group G of M. Using the ergodicity of G on the SU(2)-character variety, we deduce that every G-invariant meromorphic function on X is constant. The trace functions of closed curves on M determine regular functions which generate complex Hamiltonian flows. For simple closed curves, these complex Hamiltonian flows arise from holomorphic flows on the representation variety generalizing the Fenchel-Nielsen twist flows on Teichmueller space and the complex quakebend flows on quasi-Fuchsian space. Closed curves in the complex trajectories of these flows lift to paths in the deformation space of complex-projective structures between different projective structures with the same holonomy (grafting). A pants decomposition determines a holomorphic completely integrable system on X. This integrable system is related to the complex Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates on quasi-Fuchsian space developed by Tan and Kourouniotis, and relate to recent formulas of Platis and Series on complex-length functions and complex twist flows.
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