SO(n,n+1)-surface group representations and Higgs bundles

DOI10.24033/ASENS.2454zbMATH Open1466.53031arXiv1710.01287OpenAlexW3151108011MaRDI QIDQ3389210FDOQ3389210

Authors: Brian Collier 

Publication date: 10 May 2021

Published in: Annales Scientifiques de l?tcole Normale Sup�rieure (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the character variety of representations of the fundamental group of a closed surface of genus $ggeq2$ into the Lie group SO(n,n+1) using Higgs bundles. For each integer $0<dleqn(2g-2),$ we show there is a smooth connected component of the character variety which is diffeomorphic to the product of a certain vector bundle over a symmetric product of a Riemann surface with the vector space of holomorphic differentials of degree 2,4,...,2n-2. In particular, when d=n(2g-2), this recovers Hitchin's parameterization of the Hitchin component. We also exhibit $2^{2g+1}-1$ additional connected components of the SO(n,n+1)-character variety and compute their topology. Moreover, representations in all of these new components cannot be continuously deformed to representations with compact Zariski closure. Using recent work of Guichard and Wienhard on positivity, it is shown that each of the representations which define singularities (i.e. those which are not irreducible) in these $2^{2g+1}-1$ connected components are positive Anosov representations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01287

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zbMATH Keywords

character varietiesrepresentationsRiemann surfacefundamental groupHiggs bundlesZariski closureHitchin componentholomorphic differentials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07)

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