Various generalizations and deformations of PSL(2, R) surface group representations and their Higgs bundles

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Authors Brian Collier

Publication date 24 July 2019

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.02486

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70)

Abstract: Recall that the group $PSL(2,mathbbR)$ is isomorphic to $PSp(2,mathbbR),S{O}_0(1,2)$ and $PU(1,1).$ The goal of this paper is to examine the various ways in which Fuchsian representations of the fundamental group of a closed surface of genus $g$ into $PSL(2,mathbbR)$ and their associated Higgs bundles generalize to the higher rank groups $PSL(n,mathbbR),PSp(2n,mathbbR),S{O}_0(2,n),S{O}_0(n,n+1)$ and $PU(n,n)$. For the $S{O}_0(n,n+1)$-character variety, we parameterize $n(2g-2)$ new connected components as the total space of vector bundles over appropriate symmetric powers of the surface and study how these components deform in the $S{O}_0(n,n+2)$-character variety. This generalizes results of Hitchin for $PSL(2,mathbbR)$.

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