TOPOLOGY OF U(2, 1) REPRESENTATION SPACES

DOI10.1112/S0024609302001364MaRDI QIDQ4431497zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter B. Gothen

Publication date 22 October 2003

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0012074

zbMATH Keywords

Higgs bundlesrepresentations of fundamental groupstopology of moduli spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Topology of analytic spaces (32C18)

Abstract: The Betti numbers of moduli spaces of representations of a universal central extension of a surface group in the groups U(2,1) and SU(2,1) are calculated. The results are obtained using the identification of these moduli spaces with moduli spaces of Higgs bundles, and Morse theory, following Hitchin's programme. This requires a careful analysis of critical submanifolds which turn out to have a description using either symmetric products of the surface or moduli spaces of Bradlow pairs.

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