Hausel, TamasLetellier, EmmanuelRodriguez-Villegas, Fernando2013-03-282013-03-282013-03-28201310.1016/j.aim.2012.10.009https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/90749WOS:000313405200004We study connections between the topology of generic character varieties of fundamental groups of punctured Riemann surfaces, Macdonald polynomials, quiver representations, Hilbert schemes on C-x x C-x, modular forms and multiplicities in tensor products of irreducible characters of finite general linear groups. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Character varietiesQuiver representationsHilbert schemesRepresentations of finite general linear groupstext::journal::journal article::research article