Components of spaces of representations and stable triples.

DOI10.1016/S0040-9383(99)00086-5MaRDI QIDQ5950615zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Peter B. Gothen

Publication date 2 January 2002

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9904114

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Global differential geometry (53C99)

Abstract: We consider the moduli spaces of representations of the fundamental group of a surface of genus g greater than 2 in the Lie groups SU(2,2) and Sp(4,R). It is well known that there is a characteristic number of such a representation, whose absolute value is less than or equal to 2g-2. This allows one to write the moduli space as a union of subspaces indexed by the characteristic number, each of which is a union of connected components. The main result of this paper is that the subspaces with characteristic number plus or minus 2g-2 are connected in the case of representations in SU(2,2), while they break up into 2^{2g+1}+2g-3 connected components in the case of representations in Sp(4,R). We obtain our results using the interpretation of the moduli space of representations as a moduli space of Higgs bundles, and an important step is an identification of certain subspaces as moduli spaces of stable triples, as studied by Bradlow and Garcia-Prada.

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