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    Knots, characters and integration

    Charles Frohman, Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska
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    We show how the Turaev's shadow world invariant of links in a cylinder over a compact surface can be extended away from roots of unity. As an application of this invariant we compute integrals of simple closed curves over the character variety of the surface against Goldman's symplectic measure.