Morse theory and hyperkähler Kirwan surjectivity for Higgs bundles

DOI10.4310/jdg/1303219773zbMath1230.14046arXivmath/0701560WikidataQ60137712 ScholiaQ60137712MaRDI QIDQ542367

Georgios Daskapoulos, Graeme Wilkin, Jonathan Weitsman, Richard A. Wentworth

Publication date: 8 June 2011

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701560

zbMATH Keywords

equivariant Betti number; equivariant Morse theory; hyperkähler Kirwan map; moduli space of Higgs bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C55: Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds

53C26: Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry

14D20: Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles

14H60: Vector bundles on curves and their moduli

58E15: Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals

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