Deformations of maximal representations in Sp(4, R)

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAR010MaRDI QIDQ3145523zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

Publication date 21 December 2012

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5496

zbMATH Keywords

connected components of moduli spacesHiggs bundlessurface group representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Topological properties in algebraic geometry (14F45) Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60)

Abstract: We use Higgs bundles to answer the following question: When can a maximal Sp(4,R)-representation of a surface group be deformed to a representation which factors through a proper reductive subgroup of Sp(4,R)?

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