Higgs bundles and geometric structures on manifolds

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2019.039MaRDI QIDQ2003554zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Daniele Alessandrini

Publication date 9 July 2019

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

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

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zbMATH Keywords

Higgs bundlesgeometric structuresAnosov representationshigher Teichmüller theory

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)

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.

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