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Representations of surface groups and Higgs bundles

Algebraic Geometry 2014-10-17 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

These are the lecture notes from my course in the January 2011 School on Moduli Spaces at the Newton Institute. I give an introduction to Higgs bundles and their application to the study of character varieties for surface group representations.

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@article{arxiv.1209.0568,
  title  = {Representations of surface groups and Higgs bundles},
  author = {Peter B. Gothen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.0568},
  year   = {2014}
}

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25 pages

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