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Quadric bundles applied to non-maximal Higgs bundles

Algebraic Geometry 2017-06-13 v1

Abstract

We present a survey on the moduli spaces of rank 2 quadric bundles over a compact Riemann surface X. These are objects which generalise orthogonal bundles and which naturally occur through the study of the connected components of the moduli spaces of Higgs bundles over X for the real symplectic group Sp(4,R), with non-maximal Toledo invariant. Hence they are also related with the moduli space of representations of π1(X)\pi_1(X) in Sp(4,R). We explain this motivation in some detail.

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@article{arxiv.1608.00423,
  title  = {Quadric bundles applied to non-maximal Higgs bundles},
  author = {André Oliveira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00423},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

To appear in the special volume of Travaux Math\'ematiques dedicated to the GEOQUANT 2015 Conference held at the ICMAT, Madrid; 15 pages