Connectedness of Higgs bundle moduli for complex reductive Lie groups

DOI10.4310/AJM.2017.V21.N5.A1MaRDI QIDQ1693279zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Oscar García-Prada, André G. Oliveira

Publication date 12 February 2018

Published in The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4778

zbMATH Keywords

semistable Higgs bundlesconnected components of moduli spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Topological properties in algebraic geometry (14F45)

Abstract: We carry an intrinsic approach to the study of the connectedness of the moduli space $mathcal{M}_G$ of $G$-Higgs bundles, over a compact Riemann surface, when $G$ is a complex reductive (not necessarily connected) Lie group. We prove that the number of connected components of $mathcal{M}_G$ is indexed by the corresponding topological invariants. In particular, this gives an alternative proof of the counting by J. Li of the number of connected components of the moduli space of flat $G$-connections in the case in which $G$ is connected and semisimple.

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