Ergodicity of mapping class group actions on representation varieties, I. Closed surfaces

Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 339-362

  Pickrell, Doug ^a   Xia, Eugene Z ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Compact Lie group; Ergodic theory; Fundamental group of surface; Mapping class group; Moduli space

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036444099     PISSN: 00102571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00014-002-8343-1     Document Type: Article

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