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It was proved by \\textit{C. Florentino} and \\textit{S. Lawton} [Math. Ann. 345, No. 2, 453--489 (2009; Zbl 1200.14093)] that \\(\\mathrm{Hom}(F,K)/K\\) is a strong deformation retraction of \\(\\mathrm{Hom}(F,G)//G\\), where \\(F\\) is a free group.  For a Riemann surface \\(X\\) whose fundamental group is isomorphic to a free group, this result can be rephrased that the moduli space of flat \\(K\\)-connections on \\(X\\) is a strong deformation retraction of the moduli space of flat \\(G\\)-connections on \\(X\\).  The purpose of the paper under review is to prove that it is not the case when \\(X\\) is compact: i.e., if \\(X\\) is a compact Riemann surface of genus at least two and \\(G\\) is nontrivial semisimple, they prove that \\(\\mathrm{Hom}(\\pi_{1}(X),K)/K\\) is NOT a deformation retraction of \\(\\mathrm{Hom}(\\pi_{1}(X),G)//G\\); equivalently, the moduli space \\(M_{G}(X)\\) of topologically trivial semistable principal \\(G\\)-bundles on \\(X\\) is not a deformation retraction of the moduli space \\(H_{G}(X)\\) of Higgs \\(G\\)-bundles \\((E_{G},\\theta)\\) on \\(X\\), where \\(E_G\\) is a principal \\(G\\)-bundle on \\(X\\) and \\(\\theta\\in\\mathrm{H}^0(X,\\mathrm{ad}(E_G)\\otimes K_X)\\) is a Higgs field on \\(E_G\\). Actually it is proven that the singular cohomology groups of these two moduli spaces are not isomorphic.  In order to prove it, they explicitly construct a deformation retraction of \\(H_{G}(X)\\) to a proper algebraic subset \\(\\mathcal{N}\\), the nilpotent cone, which is defined as the null-set of the \\textit{N. Hitchin} map \\(\\mathcal{H}:H_{G}(X)\\to\\bigoplus_{j=1}^{\\ell}\\mathrm{H}^0(X,K_X^{\\otimes n_j})\\) [Duke Math. J. 54, 91--114 (1987; Zbl 0627.14024)] (See Theorem 2.1). Explicit description and properness of the Hitchin map are used in the construction.  Since \\(M_{G}(X)\\) is known to be an irreducible projective variety of dimension \\(\\dim{G}\\cdot (g-1)\\), \\(\\mathrm{H}^{\\dim{G}\\cdot (g-1)}(M_{G}(X),\\mathbb{Z})\\) equals to \\(\\mathbb{Z}\\). On the other hand, \\(\\mathcal{N}\\) is known to be equidimensional of dimension \\(\\dim{G}\\cdot (g-1)\\) and its irreducible components are parametrized by conjugacy classes of nilpotent elements in \\(\\mathrm{Lie}(G)\\) [\\textit{G. Laumon}, Duke Math. J. 57, No.2, 647-671 (1988; Zbl 0688.14023)]. 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