Approximate Hermitian-Yang-Mills structures and semistability for Higgs bundles. II: Higgs sheaves and admissible structures (Q2434959)

In the present paper, the author establishes properties of semistable Higgs sheaves over compact Kähler manifolds, as for instance, the direct sum of two torsion-free Higgs sheaves is semistable if and only if both of them are semistable and have equal slopes. He proves that the determinant bundle \(\det \mathfrak{E}=(\det E,\eta)\) of a torsion-free Higgs sheaf \(\mathfrak{E}=(E,\phi)\) is a Higgs bundle and shows that any Hermitian metric on a regularization of a torsion-free Higgs sheaf \(\mathfrak{E}\) induces an admissible structure on \(\mathfrak{E}\). Also, two admissible structures on two torsion-free Higgs sheaves define admissible structures on the tensor product and the Whitney sum of them. For Part I of this paper see [ibid. 42, No. 3, 349--370 (2012; Zbl 1260.58006)].