Harmonic maps from K\"ahler manifolds

arXiv2010.03545MaRDI QIDQ6350768FDOQ6350768

Publication date: 7 October 2020

Abstract: This report attempts a clean presentation of the theory of harmonic maps from complex and K"ahler manifolds to Riemannian manifolds. After reviewing the theory of harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds initiated by Eells--Sampson and the Bochner technique, we specialize to K"ahler domains and introduce pluriharmonic maps. We prove a refined Bochner formula due to Siu and Sampson and its main consequences, such as the strong rigidity results of Siu. We also recount the applications to symmetric spaces of noncompact type and their relation to Mostow rigidity. Finally, we explain the key role of this theory for the nonabelian Hodge correspondence relating the character variety of a compact K"ahler manifold and the moduli space of Higgs bundles.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Rigidity results (53C24) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Other partial differential equations of complex analysis in several variables (32W50)

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