English

Surface group representations to $SL(2,{\mathbb C})$ and Higgs bundles with smooth spectral data

Differential Geometry 2016-10-19 v2

Abstract

We show that for every nonelementary representation of a surface group into SL(2,C)SL(2,{\mathbb C}) there is a Riemann surface structure such that the Higgs bundle associated to the representation lies outside the discriminant locus of the Hitchin fibration.

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@article{arxiv.1507.08196,
  title  = {Surface group representations to $SL(2,{\mathbb C})$ and Higgs bundles with smooth spectral data},
  author = {Richard A. Wentworth and Michael Wolf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.08196},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

15 pages. Revised version. To appear in Geometry and Topology

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