Exotic components of SO(p, q) surface group representations, and their Higgs bundle avatars

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2018.04.024MaRDI QIDQ1636162zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Brian Collier, Oscar García-Prada, Peter B. Gothen, Marta Aparicio Arroyo, Steven B. Bradlow, André G. Oliveira

Publication date 4 June 2018

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08561

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic moduliexotic componentsHitchin representationsmoduli of vector bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Topological properties in algebraic geometry (14F45) Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70)

Abstract: For semisimple Lie groups, moduli spaces of Higgs bundles on a Riemann surface correspond to representation varieties for the surface fundamental group. In many cases, natural topological invariants label connected components of the moduli spaces. Hitchin representations into split real forms, and maximal representations into Hermitian Lie groups, are the only previously know cases where natural invariants do not fully distinguish connected components. In this note we announce the existence of new such exotic components in the moduli spaces for the groups $mathrmSO(p,q)$ with $2<p<q$. These groups lie outside formerly know classes of groups associated with exotic components.

Review text

The aim of this note is to announce the existence of exotic components in the representation varieties for representations into \(\mathrm{SO}(p, q)\), the special orthogonal groups with signature \((p, q)\). These groups are non-compact with two connected components. Recall that for semisimple Lie groups, moduli spaces of Higgs bundles on a Riemann surface correspond to representation varieties for the surface fundamental group. In many cases, natural topological invariants label connected components of the moduli spaces. Hitchin representations into split real forms, and maximal representations into Hermitian Lie groups, are the only previously know cases where natural invariants do not fully distinguish connected components. In this note the authors announce the existence of new such exotic components in the moduli spaces for the groups \(\mathrm{SO}(p,q)\) with \(2<p<q\). These groups lie outside formerly know classes of groups associated with exotic components.

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