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

DOI10.1007/S10711-007-9127-YMaRDI QIDQ881920zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

Publication date 18 May 2007

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

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)

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.

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