Unipotent Schottky bundles on Riemann surfaces and complex tori

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Abstract: We study a natural map from representations of a free (resp. free abelian) group of rank g in GL_r(C), to holomorphic vector bundles of degree zero over a compact Riemann surface X of genus g (resp. complex torus X of dimension g). This map defines what is called a Schottky functor. Our main result is that this functor induces an equivalence between the category of unipotent representations of Schottky groups and the category of unipotent vector bundles on X. We also show that, over a complex torus, any vector or principal bundle with a flat holomorphic connection is Schottky.


Let \(X\) be a complex manifold, \(\mathcal{O}_X\) its sheaf of holomorphic functions, and \(\pi:=\pi_1(X)\) its fundamental group. There is a functor from the category of \(\mathbb{C}\pi\)-modules to the category of \(\mathcal{O}_X\)-modules by taking a \(\mathbb{C}\pi\)-module \(M\) and identifying it with a representation \(\rho:\pi\to \mathrm{Aut}(M)\), and then using \(\rho\) to construct a holomorphic vector bundle over \(X\), which in turn gives an \(\mathcal{O}_X\)-module on \(X\). Let \(\Sigma\) be a free group (abelian or non-abelian), together with a surjective homomorphism \(\alpha:\pi\to \Sigma\). A \(\mathbb{C}\pi\)-module \(M\) is called \(\Sigma\)-Schottky if it is induced by a \(\mathbb{C}\Sigma\)-module via \(\alpha\). The restriction of the aforementioned functor to the Schottky modules is called the \textit{Schottky functor}. The main theorems of this interesting paper show that the Schottky functor induces an equivalence of categories between unipotent \(\mathbb{C}\Sigma\)-modules and unipotent \(\mathcal{O}_X\)-modules on \(X\) when either:NEWLINENEWLINE(a) \(X\) is a complex torus of dimension \(g\), and \(\Sigma\) is free abelian of rank \(g\), orNEWLINENEWLINE(b) \(X\) is a compact Riemann surface of genus \(g\) and \(\Sigma\) is a free group of rank \(g\).NEWLINENEWLINE Note that in both cases the homomorphism \(\alpha\) is explicitly given. These results then imply:NEWLINENEWLINE (1) a holomorphic vector bundle \(E\) over a complex torus admits a flat holomorphic connection if and only if \(E\) is Schottky, andNEWLINENEWLINE (2) a principal \(G\)-bundle \(P\), for \(G\) a complex connected linear algebraic group, over a complex torus admits a flat holomorphic connection if and only if \(P\) is Schottky.



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