Representations of surface groups in the general linear group

Abstract

We determine the number of connected components of the moduli space for representations of a surface group in the general linear group.

12 pages. v2: corrected statement of Theorem 5.2 (1), other minor corrections. To appear in the Proceedings of the Fall Workshop on Geometry and Physics, Coimbra 2003

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