P. Kirk

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20072026

most citedA symplectic manifold homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to CP^2 # 3(-CP^2)

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A differential topology proof that the $S U (2)$ character variety of the genus two surface is homeomorphic to $C P^{3}$

Christopher M. Herald, Paul Kirk

We provide a proof that the $S U (2)$ character variety of a genus two surface, $χ (F_{2})$ , is a closed compact manifold, and a proof of the Narasimhan-Ramanan theorem that $χ (F_{2})$ is…

A differential topology proof that the SU(2) character variety of the genus two surface is homeomorphic to CP3

A differential topology proof that the $S U (2)$ character variety of the genus two surface is homeomorphic to $C P^{3}$