Let Σ be a Riemann surface, and let X=Hom(π1(Σ),SU(2))/!/SU(2) be the SU(2) character variety of π1(Σ). There is a natural symplectic form on X (by Goldman) coming from the intersection pairing on H1(X), and its top wedge gives X a natural volume form. Witten (in this paper) calculated the volume of X by decomposing Σ into a bunch of copies of S2−{3 pts}. The final answer is given by an infinite sum over all irreducible representations of SU(2).
Now the volume that Witten computes can clearly be written as follows: ∫X1⋅ω∧top Of course, there are a lot of other interesting functions we could try to integrate! The usual way of representing functions on X is by a spin diagram on Σ. Alternatively, we could think of the function ρ↦∏itrViρ(αi) for some αi∈π1(Σ) and Vi representations of SU(2).
Given a spin diagram on Σ, is there any known calculation of the integral: ∫Xf⋅ω∧top where f:X→R is the function associated to the spin diagram?
I believe this should be calculable using Witten's technique. I'd like to know if anyone has seen the answer in the literature, or at least knows what the answer should be.
This post imported from StackExchange MathOverflow at 2014-09-02 20:36 (UCT), posted by SE-user John Pardon