Action of the mapping class group on character varieties and Higgs bundles

DOI10.25537/DM.2020V25.841-868MaRDI QIDQ784185zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oscar García-Prada, Graeme Wilkin

Publication date 3 August 2020

Published in Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02508

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zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacecharacter varietymapping class groupHiggs bundleparabolic Higgs bundleequivariant structuresurface group representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

Abstract: We consider the action of a finite subgroup of the mapping class group $Mod(S)$ of an oriented compact surface $S$ of genus $ggeq2$ on the moduli space $mathcalR(S,G)$ of representations of $p{i}_1(S)$ in a connected semisimple real Lie group $G$. Kerckhoff's solution of the Nielsen realization problem ensures the existence of an element $J$ in the Teichm"uller space of $S$ for which $Gamma$ can be realised as a subgroup of the group of automorphisms of $X=(S,J)$ which are holomorphic or antiholomorphic. We identify the fixed points of the action of $Gamma$ on $mathcalR(S,G)$ in terms of $G$-Higgs bundles on $X$ equipped with a certain twisted $Gamma$-equivariant structure, where the twisting involves abelian and non-abelian group cohomology simultaneously. When the kernel of the isotropy representation of the maximal compact subgroup of $G$ is trivial, the fixed points can be described in terms of familiar objects on $Y=X/Gamm{a}^{+}$, where $Gamm{a}^{+}subsetGamma$ is the maximal subgroup of $Gamma$ consisting of holomorphic automorphisms of $X$. If $Gamma=Gamm{a}^{+}$ one obtains actual $Gamma$-equivariant $G$-Higgs bundles on $X$, which in turn correspond with parabolic Higgs bundles on $Y=X/Gamma$ (this generalizes work of Nasatyr & Steer for $G=SL(2,mathbbR)$ and Boden, Andersen & Grove and Furuta & Steer for $G=SU(n)$). If on the other hand $Gamma$ has antiholomorphic automorphisms, the objects on $Y=X/Gamm{a}^{+}$ correspond with pseudoreal parabolic Higgs bundles. This is a generalization in the parabolic setup of the pseudoreal Higgs bundles studied by the first author in collaboration with Biswas & Hurtubise.

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