Higher solutions of Hitchin's self-duality equations

DOI10.1093/INTEGR/XYAA006zbMATH Open1481.37082arXiv1801.02402OpenAlexW3101058708MaRDI QIDQ5157901FDOQ5157901

Authors: Lynn Heller, Sebastian Heller 

Publication date: 20 October 2021

Published in: Journal of Integrable Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Solutions of Hitchin's self-duality equations corresponds to special real sections in the Deligne-Hitchin moduli space -- twistor lines. A question posed by Simpson in 1997 asks whether all real sections give rise to global solutions of the self-duality equations. An affirmative answer would allow for complex analytic procedure to obtain all solutions of the self-duality equations. The purpose of this paper is to construct counter examples given by certain (branched) Willmore surfaces in $3$-space (with monodromy) via the generalized Whitham flow. Though these higher solutions do not give rise to global solutions of the self-duality equations on the whole Riemann surface $M$, they are solutions on an open dense subset of it. This suggest a deeper connection between Willmore surfaces, i.e., rank $4$ harmonic maps theory, with the rank $2$ self-duality theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02402

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zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapsHiggs bundlesself-duality equationsWillmore surfaces\(\lambda\)-connectionsDeligne-Hitchin moduli spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Transcendental methods, Hodge theory (algebro-geometric aspects) (14C30) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with algebraic geometry, complex analysis, and special functions (37K20) Variation of Hodge structures (algebro-geometric aspects) (14D07) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (37K25)

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• Real holomorphic sections of the Deligne-Hitchin twistor space
• Isothermic constrained Willmore tori in 3-space
• Generalized Whitham flow and its applications
• Minimal \(n\)-noids in hyperbolic and anti-De Sitter 3-space
• Twisted Harmonic Maps and the Self-Duality Equations
• Real projective structures on Riemann surfaces and new hyper-Kähler manifolds

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