Quasi-Poisson structures on representation spaces of surfaces

By G. Massuyeau, Vladimir Turaev. 2012

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Given an oriented surface S with base point * on the boundary, we introduce for all N>0, a canonical quasi-Poisson bracket on the space of N-dimensional linear representations of \pi_1(S,*). Our bracket extends the well-known Poisson bracket on GL_N-invariant functions on this space. Our main tool is a natural structure of a quasi-Poisson double algebra (in the sense of M. Van den Bergh) on the group algebra of \pi_1(S,*).

Subfields: Algebra and Number Theory, Mathematical Physics

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