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In this paper, we study Higgs and co-Higgs bundles on non-K\"ahler elliptic surfaces. We show, in particular, that non-trivial stable Higgs bundles only exist when the base of the elliptic fibration has genus at least two and use this…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Eric Boulter , Ruxandra Moraru

This expository paper details the theory of rank one Higgs bundles over a closed Riemann surface X and their relationship to representations of the fundamental group of X. We construct an equivalence between the deformation theories of flat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-12 William M. Goldman , Eugene Z. Xia

Higgs bundles appeared a few decades ago as solutions to certain equations from physics and have attracted much attention in geometry as well as other areas of mathematics and physics. Here, we take a very informal stroll through some…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Steven Rayan , Laura P. Schaposnik

Given a connected reductive algebraic group G, we investigate the Picard group of the moduli stack of principal G-bundles over an arbitrary family of smooth curves.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Roberto Fringuelli , Filippo Viviani

Using Hitchin's parameterization of the Hitchin-Teichm\"uller component of the $SL(n,\mathbb{R})$ representation variety, we study the asymptotics of certain families of representations. In fact, for certain Higgs bundles in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Brian Collier , Qiongling Li

For a simple, simply connected, complex group G, we prove the existence of a flat projective connection on the bundle of nonabelian theta functions on the moduli space of semistable parabolic G-bundles over families of smooth projective…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Indranil Biswas , Swarnava Mukhopadhyay , Richard Wentworth

Let $X$ be a smooth projective curve over the complex numbers. To every representation $\rho\colon \GL(r)\lra \GL(V)$ of the complex general linear group on the finite dimensional complex vector space $V$ which satisfies the assumption that…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Schmitt

We review and study the notion of Higgs Grassmannians, which are schemes parametrizing the Higgs subbundles of a given Higgs bundle over a smooth variety. We write their equations as closed subschemes of the usual Grassmann bundles and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Ugo Bruzzo , Michele Graffeo , Beatriz Graña Otero

Building on our previous joint work with A. Schmitt [7] we explain a recursive algorithm to determine the cohomology of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles on any given curve (in the coprime situation). As an application of the method we compute…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Oscar García-Prada , Jochen Heinloth

These notes have been prepared as reading material for the mini-course given by the author at the "2019 Graduate Summer School" at Park City Mathematics Institute - Institute for Advanced Study. We begin by introducing Higgs bundles and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Laura P. Schaposnik

In this paper, we give an expository account of the geometric properties of the moduli stack of $G$-bundles. For $G$ an algebraic group over a base field and $X \to S$ a flat, finitely presented, projective morphism of schemes, we give a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-27 Jonathan Wang

We introduce the notion of generalized hyperpolygon, which arises as a representation, in the sense of Nakajima, of a comet-shaped quiver. We identify these representations with rigid geometric figures, namely pairs of polygons: one in the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Steven Rayan , Laura P. Schaposnik

A lot is known about the moduli space of parabolic bundles over curves of genus $g\geq 2$, but the lower genus cases are notably different. The goal of this article is to study the geometry of the moduli space of semistable parabolic…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Roberto Alvarenga , Inder Kaur , Frank Loray

We establish a gluing construction for Higgs bundles over a connected sum of Riemann surfaces in terms of solutions to the $\text{Sp(4}\text{,}\mathbb{R}\text{)}$-Hitchin equations using the linearization of a relevant elliptic operator.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Georgios Kydonakis

We establish an isomorphism of complex $K$-theory of the moduli space $\check{\mathcal{M}}$ of $``SL_n"$-Higgs bundles of degree $d$ and rank $n$ (in the sense of Hausel--Thaddeus) and twisted complex $K$-theory of the orbifold…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Michael Groechenig , Shiyu Shen

This paper studies the gradient flow lines for the $L^2$ norm square of the Higgs field defined on the moduli space of semistable rank $2$ Higgs bundles twisted by a line bundle of positive degree over a compact Riemann surface $X$. The…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Graeme Wilkin

We introduce real structures on $L$-twisted Higgs pairs over a compact Riemann surface equipped with an anti-holomorphic involution, and prove a Hitchin--Kobayashi correspondence for them. Real $G$-Higgs bundles, where $G$ is a real form of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Indranil Biswas , Luis Angel Calvo , Oscar Garcia-Prada

Given a compact Riemann surface $X$ and a semisimple affine algebraic group $G$ defined over $\mathbb C$, there are moduli spaces of Higgs bundles and of connections associated to $(X,\, G)$. We compute the Brauer group of the smooth locus…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-18 David Baraglia , Indranil Biswas , Laura P. Schaposnik

We study the basic properties of Higgs sheaves over compact K\"ahler manifolds and we establish some results concerning the notion of semistability; in particular, we show that any extension of semistable Higgs sheaves with equal slopes is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-08 S. A. H. Cardona

We study parabolic G-Higgs bundles over a compact Riemann surface with fixed punctures, when G is a real reductive Lie group, and establish a correspondence between these objects and representations of the fundamental group of the punctured…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Olivier Biquard , Oscar Garcia-Prada , Ignasi Mundet i Riera