Moduli spaces of flat connections on 2-manifolds, cobordism, and Witten's volume formulas

Abstract

We discuss Witten's formulas for the symplectic volumes of moduli spaces of flat connections on 2-manifolds from the viewpoint of Hamiltonian cobordism as introduced by Ginzburg-Guillemin-Karshon.

20 pages, AMS-LaTeX, amssymb,eepic,epic

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• Two Dimensional Gauge Theories Revisited
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• Universal moduli spaces of surfaces with flat connections and cobordism theory