Construction of the moduli space of Higgs bundles using analytic methods
The author deals with some problems related to the construction of the moduli space of Higgs bundles using analytic methods. Recall that a Higgs bundle on a closed Riemann surface \(X\) (with genus \(g\geq2\)) was introduced by \textit{N. J. Hitchin} in the seminal paper [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 55, 59--126 (1987; Zbl 0634.53045)]. It is a pair \((\mathcal{E},\Phi)\) consisting of a holomorphic bundle \(\mathcal{E}\longrightarrow X\) and a holomorphic section \(\Phi\in H^0(\mbox{End }\mathcal{E}\otimes\mathcal{K}_X)\), where \(\mathcal{K}_X\) is the canonical bundle of \(X\). It is well known that the Kuranishi slice method can be used to construct the moduli space of semistable Higgs bundles on a closed Riemann surface as a complex space [\textit{S. B. Bradlow} and \textit{G. Wilkin}, J. Fixed Point Theory Appl. 11, No. 1, 1--41 (2012; Zbl 1267.58010); \textit{R. A. Wentworth}, in: Geometry and quantization of moduli spaces. Based on 4 courses, Barcelona, Spain, March -- June 2012. Basel: Birkhäuser/Springer. 165--219 (2016; Zbl 1388.30052)]. The aim of this paper is to give a proof in detail of this result. The author also gives a direct proof that the moduli space is locally modeled on an affine GIT (or geometric invariant theory) quotient of a quadratic cone by a complex reductive group. The paper is organized as follows. Section 1 is an introduction to the subject. In Section 2, after reviewing the deformation complex for Higgs bundles, the author introduces another useful Fredholm complex that will be used later. Section 3 is devoted to Kuranishi local models. A crucial ingredient in the Kuranishi slice method is the Kuranishi maps. Here the author deals with some questions concerning Kuranishi maps, perturbed Kuranishi maps and open embeddings into the moduli space. Section 4 deals with gluing local models. Section 5 deals with singularities in Kuranishi spaces. In this section, the author shows that Kuranishi spaces have only cone singularities. Section 6 is devoted to comparison with the algebraic construction.
- A brief survey of Higgs bundles
- An Introduction to Spectral Data for Higgs Bundles
- Moduli spaces of Higgs bundles - old and new
- Bohr-Sommerfeld Lagrangians of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles
- Higgs bundles for real groups and the Hitchin-Kostant-Rallis section
- A remark on a deformation theory of Green and Lazarsfeld.
- An introduction to moduli stacks, with a view towards Higgs bundles on algebraic curves
- Ends of the moduli space of Higgs bundles
- The orbit type stratification of the moduli space of Higgs bundles
- Morse theory, Higgs fields, and Yang-Mills-Higgs functionals
- The quiver at the bottom of the twisted nilpotent cone on \(\mathbb P^1\)
- Analytically stable Higgs bundles on some non-Kähler manifolds
- The orbit type stratification of the moduli space of Higgs bundles
- An analytic approach to the quasi-projectivity of the moduli space of Higgs bundles
- Local structure of moduli spaces
- Generators for the cohomology ring of the moduli space of rank 2 Higgs bundles
- Construction of the Moduli Space of Higgs Bundles using Analytic Methods
- The algebraic and analytic compactifications of the Hitchin moduli space
- On Hitchin's equations for cyclic G-Higgs bundles
- Local structure of the Teichmüller and the Riemann moduli stacks
- A general Cayley correspondence and higher rank Teichmüller spaces
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