Maximal Sp(4, R) surface group representations, minimal immersions and cyclic surfaces

DOI10.1007/S10711-015-0101-9MaRDI QIDQ2634857zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brian Collier

Publication date 10 February 2016

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03526

zbMATH Keywords

character varietyharmonic mapsHiggs bundlesmapping class groupmaximal representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70) Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions) (30F45) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: Let $S$ be a closed surface of genus at least $2$. For each maximal representation $ho:p{i}_1(S)ightarrowmathsfSp(4,mathbbR)$ in one of the $2g-3$ exceptional connected components, we prove there is a unique conformal structure on the surface in which the corresponding equivariant harmonic map to the symmetric space $mathsfSp(4,mathbbR)/mathsfU(2)$ is a minimal immersion. Using a Higgs bundle parameterization of these components, we give a mapping class group invariant parameterization of such components as fiber bundles over Teichm"uller space. Unlike Labourie's recent results on Hitchin components, these bundles are not vector bundles.

Review text

The author starts by recalling some basic definitions and tools of the theory of Higgs bundles and harmonic maps. Let \(S\) be a closed surface of genus at least \(2\). The aim of this paper is to prove that for each maximal representation \(\rho:\pi_1(S)\longrightarrow\mathrm{Sp}(4,\mathbb{R})\) in one of the \(2g-3\) exceptional connected components, there is a unique conformal structure on the surface in which the corresponding equivariant harmonic map to the symmetric space \(\mathrm{Sp}(4,\mathbb{R})/\mathrm{U}(2)\) is a minimal immersion. Using a Higgs bundle parameterization of these components, the author gives a mapping class group invariant parameterization of such components as fiber bundles over Teichmüller space. Unlike Labourie's recent results on Hitchin components, these bundles are not vector bundles.

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