Deformations of twisted harmonic maps and variation of the energy

DOI10.1007/S00209-014-1328-0zbMATH Open1310.53056arXiv1310.7694OpenAlexW2068707449MaRDI QIDQ484335FDOQ484335

Authors: Marco Spinaci 

Publication date: 7 January 2015

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the deformations of twisted harmonic maps $f$ with respect to the representation $ho$. After constructing a continuous "universal" twisted harmonic map, we give a construction of every first order deformation of $f$ in terms of Hodge theory; we apply this result to the moduli space of reductive representations of a K"ahler group, to show that the critical points of the energy functional $E$ coincide with the monodromy representations of polarized complex variations of Hodge structure. We then proceed to second order deformations, where obstructions arise; we investigate the existence of such deformations, and give a method for constructing them, as well. Applying this to the energy functional as above, we prove (for every finitely presented group) that the energy functional is a potential for the K"ahler form of the "Betti" moduli space; assuming furthermore that the group is K"ahler, we study the eigenvalues of the Hessian of $E$ at critical points.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7694

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zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacesenergy functionalHiggs bundlestwisted harmonic mapsvariations of Hodge structureKähler groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complex-analytic moduli problems (32G13) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Variation of Hodge structures (algebro-geometric aspects) (14D07)

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