Maximal surface group representations in isometry groups of classical Hermitian symmetric spaces

DOI10.1007/S10711-007-9127-YzbMATH Open1132.14029arXivmath/0511415OpenAlexW2120778516MaRDI QIDQ881920FDOQ881920

Authors: Steven B. Bradlow, Oscar García-Prada, Peter B. Gothen 

Publication date: 18 May 2007

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Higgs bundles and non-abelian Hodge theory provide holomorphic methods with which to study the moduli spaces of surface group representations in a reductive Lie group G. In this paper we survey the case in which G is the isometry group of a classical Hermitian symmetric space of non-compact type. Using Morse theory on the moduli spaces of Higgs bundles, we compute the number of connected components of the moduli space of representations with maximal Toledo invariant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511415

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zbMATH Keywords

moduli spaceMorse functionsemisimple Lie groupHermitian symmetric spaceHiggs bundlerepresentation of the fundamental group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Complex-analytic moduli problems (32G13) Hermitian symmetric spaces, bounded symmetric domains, Jordan algebras (complex-analytic aspects) (32M15) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

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