Higgs bundles and geometric structures on manifolds

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2019.039zbMATH Open1427.57017arXiv1809.07290WikidataQ127888596 ScholiaQ127888596MaRDI QIDQ2003554FDOQ2003554

Daniele Alessandrini

Publication date: 9 July 2019

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Geometric structures on manifolds became popular when Thurston used them in his work on the geometrization conjecture. They were studied by many people and they play an important role in higher Teichm"uller theory. Geometric structures on a manifold are closely related with representations of the fundamental group and with flat bundles. Higgs bundles can be very useful in describing flat bundles explicitly, via solutions of Hitchin's equations. Baraglia has shown in his Ph.D. Thesis that Higgs bundles can also be used to construct geometric structures in some interesting cases. In this paper, we will explain the main ideas behind this theory and we will survey some recent results in this direction, which are joint work with Qiongling Li.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07290

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zbMATH Keywords

Higgs bundles[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=higher+Teichm%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDller+theory&go=Go higher Teichm��ller theory]geometric structuresAnosov representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02)

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• From Hyperbolic Dehn Filling to Surgeries in Representation Varieties
• Geometric structures for the \(\mathsf{G}_2^\prime \)-Hitchin component
• The Geometry, Topology and Physics of Moduli Spaces of Higgs Bundles

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