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.
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