The Volume of the Moduli Space of Flat Connections on a Nonorientable 2-manifold
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We compute the Riemannian volume of the moduli space of flat connections on a nonorientable 2-manifold, for a natural class of metrics. We also show that Witten’s volume formula for these moduli spaces may be derived using Haar measure, and we give a new proof of Witten’s volume formula for the moduli space of flat connections on a Riemann surface using Haar measure. ———————–
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