Higgs Bundles and Characteristic Classes

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-43648-7_8zbMath1379.57035arXiv1308.4603OpenAlexW2108611116MaRDI QIDQ5278323

Nigel J. Hitchin

Publication date: 19 July 2017

Published in: Arbeitstagung Bonn 2013 (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.4603

zbMATH Keywords

mirror symmetryHiggs fieldcharacteristic varietyhyperkähler structureHiggs bundlecharacteristic class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Mirror symmetry (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J33) Symplectic aspects of mirror symmetry, homological mirror symmetry, and Fukaya category (53D37)

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Very stable Higgs bundles, equivariant multiplicity and mirror symmetry, Branes on the singular locus of the Hitchin system via Borel and other parabolic subgroups, Hitchin fibrations on moduli of irregular Higgs bundles and motivic wall-crossing, Involutions of Higgs moduli spaces over elliptic curves and pseudo-real Higgs bundles, Enhanced mirror symmetry for Langlands dual Hitchin systems, Abelianization of Higgs bundles for quasi-split real groups, Unramified covers and branes on the Hitchin system, S-duality of boundary conditions and the Geometric Langlands program, Cayley and Langlands type correspondences for orthogonal Higgs bundles, Monodromy of rank 2 twisted Hitchin systems and real character varieties, Branes through finite group actions, Singular geometry and Higgs bundles in string theory, Higgs bundles for the non-compact dual of the special orthogonal group, Degeneration of natural Lagrangians and Prymian integrable systems, Branes in the moduli space of framed sheaves

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