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Construction of the Moduli Space of Higgs Bundles using Analytic Methods

Differential Geometry 2020-06-02 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

It is a folklore theorem that the Kuranishi slice method can be used to construct the moduli space of semistable Higgs bundles on a closed Riemann surface as a complex space. The purpose of this paper is to provide a proof in detail. We also give a direct proof that the moduli space is locally modeled on an affine GIT quotient of a quadratic cone by a complex reductive group.

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@article{arxiv.2004.07182,
  title  = {Construction of the Moduli Space of Higgs Bundles using Analytic Methods},
  author = {Yue Fan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.07182},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

results unchanged, revised argument in Theorem 3.6, and improved exposition