Surface group representations to SL(2, C) and Higgs bundles with smooth spectral data

DOI10.2140/GT.2016.20.3019MaRDI QIDQ321687zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard A. Wentworth, Michael Wolf

Publication date 14 October 2016

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.08196

zbMATH Keywords

complex projective structureHiggs bundleR-treespectral curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Abstract: We show that for every nonelementary representation of a surface group into $SL(2,mathbbC)$ there is a Riemann surface structure such that the Higgs bundle associated to the representation lies outside the discriminant locus of the Hitchin fibration.

Review text

From the abstract: We show that for every nonelementary representation of a surface group into \(\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb C)\) there is a Riemann surface structure such that the Higgs bundle associate to the representation lies outside the discriminant locus of the Hitchin fibration.

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