Involutions and higher order automorphisms of Higgs bundle moduli spaces

DOI10.1112/PLMS.12242zbMATH Open1427.14068arXiv1605.05143OpenAlexW3102523470WikidataQ125870596 ScholiaQ125870596MaRDI QIDQ5237456FDOQ5237456

S. Ramanan, Oscar García-Prada

Publication date: 18 October 2019

Published in: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the moduli space $mathcalM(G)$ of $G$-Higgs bundles over a compact Riemann surface $X$, where $G$ is a complex semisimple Lie group. This is a hyperk"ahler manifold homeomorphic to the moduli space $mathcalR(G)$ of representations of the fundamental group of $X$ in $G$. In this paper we study finite order automorphisms of $mathcalM(G)$ obtained by combining the action of an element of order $n$ in $H^1(X,Z)timesmboxOut(G)$, where $Z$ is the centre of $G$ and $mboxOut(G)$ is the group of outer automorphisms of $G$, with the multiplication of the Higgs field by an $n$th-root of unity, and describe the subvarieties of fixed points. We give special attention to the case of involutions, defined by the action of an element of order $2$ in $H^1(X,Z)timesmboxOut(G)$ combined with the multiplication of the Higgs field by $pm1$. In this situation, the subvarieties of fixed points are hyperk"ahler submanifolds of $mathcalM(G)$ in the (+1)-case, corresponding to the moduli space of representations of the fundamental group in certain reductive complex subgroups of $G$ defined by holomorphic involutions of $G$; while in the (-1)-case they are Lagrangian subvarieties corresponding to the moduli space of representations of the fundamental group of $X$ in real forms of $G$ and certain extensions of these. We illustrate the general theory with the description of involutions for $G=mboxSL(n,mathbbC)$ and involutions and order three automorphism defined by triality for $G=mboxSpin(8,mathbbC)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05143

zbMATH Keywords

involutionmoduli spaceRiemann surfaceautomorphismHiggs bundleprincipal bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Automorphisms of surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties (14J50) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

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