The first Johnson subgroups act ergodically on SU2-character varieties
Abstract
We show that the first Johnson subgroup of the mapping class group of a surface S of genus greater than one acts ergodically on the moduli space of representations of the fundamental group of S in SU2. Our proof relies on a local description of the latter space around the trivial representation and on the Taylor expansion of trace functions.
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