Recent results on vector bundles, principal bundles and related topics (Q2304122)

This a survey on interesting works on vector bundles, principal bundles and related topics, with a focus on the great contributions of Indian mathematicians.Topics: Higgs bundles (generalized parabolic Hitchin pairs, degenerations of smooth curves and Gieseker-Hitchin pairs, tensor products of Higgs bundles in arbitrary characteristic); Tannakian group schemes and vector bundles (fundamental group schemes, Gieseker's conjecture, S-fundamental group schemes, Hitchin holonomy group scheme); Brill-Noether theory and coherent sysyems on curves (Butler's conjecture, coherent systems and Brill-Noether loci on nodal curves, syzygies bundles and Brill-Noether theory on nodal curves); the Harder-Narasimhan trace and the Hitchin connection (moduli of parabolic bundles, the projective line with marked points); parahoric \(G\)-torsors (works of Seshadri and Balaji); rationality and Brauer groups of moduli spaces; real algebraic vector bundles and real algebraic principal bundles (pseudo-real principal \(G\)-bundles and pseudo-real principal Higgs bundles; Donaldson-Uhlenbeck compactification; extensions of structure groups of principal bundles; schematic Harder-Narasimhan filtration; de Rham bundles (work of C. T. Simpson); bundles with theta divisors; Hilbert-Kunz function and multiplicity (restriction theorems and Fobenius pull-backs).