Cyclic Higgs bundles and the affine Toda equations

DOI10.1007/S10711-014-0003-2MaRDI QIDQ2256249zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Baraglia

Publication date 19 February 2015

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.6421

zbMATH Keywords

cyclic bundleharmonic mapHiggs bundleToda equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Abstract: We introduce a class of Higgs bundles called cyclic which lie in the Hitchin component of representations of a compact Riemann surface into the split real form of a simple Lie group. We then prove that such a Higgs bundle is equivalent to a certain class of solutions to the affine Toda equations. We further explain this relationships in terms of lifts of harmonic maps.

Review text

The Higgs bundle equations and affine Toda field equations lie at the intersection of some intensively studied topics in integrable systems. They are examples of harmonic maps from a surface to a homogeneous space and they are also realized as certain dimensional reductions of the Yang-Mills self-duality equations. This relationship between the two equations has been observed by \textit{E. Aldrovandi} and \textit{G. Falqui} in [J. Geom. Phys. 17, No. 1, 25--48 (1995; Zbl 0841.14005)]. They proved that a certain real form of the affine Toda equations yields solutions to the Higgs bundle equations of a specific form, which in the paper under review are called cyclic. The author provides a proof of the converse statement. He shows that any cyclic Higgs bundle arises from a solution to the affine Toda equations. More precisely, by imposing only a few natural assumptions, the Toda equations can be derived from the Higgs bundle equations.

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