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In this chapter, we aim to provide a survey on the subject of representations of fundamental groups of 2-manifolds, or in other guises flat connections on orientable 2-manifolds or moduli spaces parametrizing holomorphic vector bundles on Riemann surfaces.
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Dwivedi, S., Herman, J., Jeffrey, L.C., van den Hurk, T. (2019). Flat Connections on 2-Manifolds. In: Hamiltonian Group Actions and Equivariant Cohomology. SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27227-2_12
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