Higgs bundles for the non-compact dual of the special orthogonal group

DOI10.1007/S10711-014-0026-8zbMATH Open1314.14060arXiv1303.1058OpenAlexW3104326935MaRDI QIDQ2339879FDOQ2339879

Authors: Steven B. Bradlow, Peter B. Gothen, Oscar García-Prada 

Publication date: 14 April 2015

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Higgs bundles over a closed orientable surface can be defined for any real reductive Lie group G. In this paper we examine the case G=SO*(2n). We describe a rigidity phenomenon encountered in the case of maximal Toledo invariant. Using this and Morse theory in the moduli space of Higgs bundles, we show that the moduli space is connected in this maximal Toledo case. The Morse theory also allows us to show connectedness when the Toledo invariant is zero. The correspondence between Higgs bundles and surface group representations thus allows us to count the connected components with zero and maximal Toledo invariant in the moduli space of representations of the fundamental group of the surface in SO*(2n).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1058

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zbMATH Keywords

moduli spaceHiggs bundlessurface group representationsreal Lie groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29)

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