GASC Seminar

 
Decomposable representations of surface groups into compact connected Lie groups

 

Florent Schaffhauser

Keio University
 
 

Northeastern University

Monday, November 3, 2008


 

Talk at 12:15 PM in 511 Lake


 

Abstract: In this talk, we generalize to arbitrary surface groups and arbitrary compact connected Lie groups the notion of decomposable representation, first introduced by Falbel and Wentworth for unitary representations of the punctured sphere group. We show that such decomposable representations are the elements of the fixed-point set of an anti-symplectic involution defined on the moduli space of representations, forming therefore a Lagrangian submanifold of this moduli space. The existence of decomposable representations is obtained as a corollary of a real convexity theorem for group-valued momentum maps.



Here are some directions to Northeastern University. Lake Hall can be best accessed from the entrance on the corner of Greenleaf Street and Leon Street.



GASC Seminar Home Page Posted:  September 9, 2008.
Web page:  Alexandru I. Suciu URL:   http://www.math.neu.edu/gasc/abs/schaffhauser08.html