Parabolic bundles and representations of the fundamental group

DOI10.1007/PL00005859MaRDI QIDQ1592848zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tomas L. Gómez, T. R. Ramadas

Publication date 3 September 2001

Published in Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9912003

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupHiggs bundlesmoduli of vector bundlesNéron-Severi groupparabolic bundlesunitary representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Homotopy theory and fundamental groups in algebraic geometry (14F35)

Abstract: Let X be as smooth complex projective variety with Neron-Severi group isomorphic to Z, and D an irreducible divisor with normal crossing singularities. Assume r is equal to 2 or 3. We prove that if the fundamental group of X doesn't have irreducible PU(r) representations, then the fundamental group of X-D doesn't have irreducible U(r) representations. The proof uses the non-existence of certain stable parabolic bundles. We also obtain a similar result for GL(2) when D is smooth and X is a complex surface.

Review text

Given a smooth complex projective variety \(X\) and an irreducible divisor \(D\) of \(X\) with normal crossing singularities, it is important to relate the fundamental groups of \(X\) and \(X-D\) and to get information about their representations. Using the non-existence of certain stable parabolic bundles the authors show that under the assumption that the Néron-Severi group \(NS(X)\) is isomorphic to \(\mathbb{Z}\), the group \(\pi_1(X-D)\) does not have irreducible \(U(r)\) representations, if the group \(\pi_1(X)\) does not have irreducible \(PU(r)\) representation, where for the rank \(r\) one also has to assume \(1<r\leq 3\). Under these assumptions they show as an important corollary that, if \(\rho\) is an irreducible unitary representation of \(\pi_1(X-D)\) and \(\lambda\) is an element going once around \(D\), then \(\rho(\lambda)\) is just a multiple of the identity. Under the further assumption that the divisor \(D\) is smooth and the tangent bundle of \(X\) is generated by global sections the authors obtain a similar result for the group \(GL(2)\). The smoothness condition is necessary here, because the correspondence between representations and Higgs bundles is up to now only known under this stronger condition.

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