A refinement of the A-polynomial of quivers
  We study a refinement of the A-polynomial in the case of the g-loop quiver. We give an explicit formula for its value at q=1. Conjecturally this implies a formula for the middle Betti number of the moduli space of Higgs bundles or equivalently of the character variety of a Riemann surface of genus g. 
Fernando Rodriguez Villegas
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