Bounded differentials on the unit disk and the associated geometry
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Bounded differentials on the unit disk and the associated geometry
zbMATH Open document ID: 1545.5302
author: Song Dai
author: Qiongling Li
published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
publication date: 2024-07-12T00:00:00Z
review text: A Higgs bundle on a Riemann surface \(\Sigma\) consists of a pair: a holomorphic vector bundle \(E\) over \(\Sigma\) and a Higgs field, represented as an \(\mathrm{End}(E)\)-valued holomorphic \(1\)-form. A Hermitian metric \(h\) on \(E\) is called harmonic if it gives rise to an equivariant harmonic map from the universal cover of \(\Sigma\) to the symmetric space \(\mathrm{GL}(r,\mathbb{C})/U(r)\), and thus is a solution to Hitchin equations. Similar to the case of a compact surface, one can define the Hitchin section consisting of Higgs bundles over the disk \(\mathbb{D}\), denoted as \(s(q_{2}, \dots, q_{r})\), parametrized by a tuple of differentials.\N\NThis paper focuses on cyclic (only \(q_{r} \neq 0\)) and subcyclic (only \(q_{r-1}\neq 0\)) Higgs bundles in the Hitchin sections over \(\mathbb{D}\) and investigates the relationship between bounded \(r\)-differentials or \((r-1)\)-differentials with the geometry of harmonic maps. In [``Complete solutions of Toda equations and cyclic Higgs bundles over non-compact surfaces'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:2010.05401}], the second author and \textit{T. Mochizuki} showed that there exists a unique strongly complete solution to Hitchin equations on the cyclic rank \(r\)-Higgs bundle \(s(0, \cdots, 0, q)\). The authors introduce a similar notion of strongly complete solution to Hitchin equations for subcyclic rank \((r-1)\)-Higgs bundles \(s(0, \cdots, 0,q,0)\) and show that if \(f:\mathbb{D} \rightarrow \Sigma \subset \mathrm{SL}(r,\mathbb{C})/U(r)\) is a minimal immersion induced by a holomorphic \(r\)-differential \(q\) for \(r\geq 3\) or a holomorphic \((r-1)\)-differential \(q\) for \(r \geq 4\) arising from the strongly complete solution, then the following are equivalent:\N\begin{itemize}\N\item[1.] \(q\) is bounded with respect to the hyperbolic metric \(g_{\mathbb{D}}\) on \(\mathbb{D}\);\N\item[2.] The induced metric of \(\Sigma\) is mutually bounded with \(g_{\mathbb{D}}\);\N\item[3.] There exists a constant \(\…
reviewed by: Andrea Tamburelli
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C07
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C43
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58E20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 32L05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57R22
zbMATH DE Number: 7880404
zbMATH Keywords: Higgs bundles
zbMATH Keywords: harmonic maps
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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DOI: 10.1090/TRAN/9154
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7880404