Algebraic and Geometric Topology 4 (2004),
paper no. 17, pages 311-332.
Shadow world evaluation of the Yang-Mills measure
Charles Frohman, Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska
Abstract.
A new state-sum formula for the evaluation of the Yang-Mills measure in the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of a closed surface is derived. The formula extends the Kauffman bracket to diagrams that lie in surfaces other than the plane. It also extends Turaev's shadow world invariant of links in a circle bundle over a surface away from roots of unity. The limiting behavior of the Yang-Mills measure when the complex parameter approaches $-1$ is studied. The formula is applied to compute integrals of simple closed curves over the character variety of the surface against Goldman's symplectic measure.
Keywords.
Yang-Mills measure, shadows, links, skeins, SU(2)-characters of a surface
AMS subject classification.
Primary: 57M27. Secondary: 57R56, 81T13.
DOI: 10.2140/agt.2004.4.311
E-print: arXiv:math.GT/0205193
Submitted: 17 April 2003.
(Revised: 26 March 2004.)
Accepted: 28 April 2004.
Published: 21 May 2004.
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Charles Frohman, Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska
Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
and
Department of Mathematics, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, USA
Email: frohman@math.uiowa.edu, kania@math.boisestate.edu
URL: http://www.math.uiowa.edu/~frohman, http://math.boisestate.edu/~kania
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