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We study rank-2 wobbly bundles on a Riemann surface $C$ of genus $g\geq 2$, i.e. semi-stable bundles admitting nonzero nilpotent Higgs fields, in terms of direct images of line bundles on smooth spectral curves $\tilde{C}…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Duong Dinh

We introduce C-Algebras of compact Riemann surfaces $\Sigma$ as non-commutative analogues of the Poisson algebra of smooth functions on $\Sigma$. Representations of these algebras give rise to sequences of matrix-algebras for which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-11-19 Joakim Arnlind , Martin Bordemann , Laurent Hofer , Jens Hoppe , Hidehiko Shimada

We construct examples of Lefschetz fibrations with prescribed singular fibers. By taking differences of pairs of such fibrations with the same singular fibers, we obtain new examples of surface bundles over surfaces with non-zero signature.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-06-08 H. Endo , M. Korkmaz , D. Kotschick , B. Ozbagci , A. Stipsicz

We study moduli spaces of Higgs bundles with two poles on an elliptic curve. We describe all singular fibers of the Hitchin map, including the nilpotent cone. To achieve this, we consider a modular map that lifts Higgs bundles with five…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Thiago Fassarella , Frank Loray

We define Hitchin's moduli space for a principal bundle $P$, whose structure group is a compact semisimple Lie group $K$, over a compact non-orientable Riemannian manifold $M$. We use the Donaldson-Corlette correspondence, which identifies…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Nan-Kuo Ho , Graeme Wilkin , Siye Wu

The purpose of this note is to give a simple proof of the fact that a certain substack, defined in [2], of the moduli stack $T^{\ast}Bun_G(\Sigma)$ of Higgs bundles over a curve $\Sigma$, for a connected, simply connected semisimple group…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-05 Yu Li

We introduce the concept of a Fock bundle, a smooth principal bundle over a surface equipped with a special kind of adjoint-valued 1-form, as a new tool for studying character varieties of surface groups. Although similar to Higgs bundles,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Georgios Kydonakis , Charlie Reid , Alexander Thomas

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

In this paper, we describe the spectral correspondence for cyclic Higgs bundles from the viewpoint of quiver bundles. Under this framework, we establish a one-to-one correspondence between cyclic Higgs bundles on a curve and sheaves on a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Jia Choon Lee , Ana Peón-Nieto

We explore relations between Higgs bundles that result from isogenies between low-dimensional Lie groups, with special attention to the spectral data for the Higgs bundles. We focus on isogenies onto $SO(4,C)$ and $SO(6,C)$ and their split…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Steven B. Bradlow , Laura P. Schaposnik

Higgs bundles over a closed orientable surface can be defined for any real reductive Lie group G. In this paper we examine the case G=SO*(2n). We describe a rigidity phenomenon encountered in the case of maximal Toledo invariant. Using this…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Steven B. Bradlow , Oscar Garcia-Prada , Peter B. Gothen

We give a differential geometric construction of the holomorphic family of Higgs bundle moduli spaces over a curve C as a fibration over Teichm\"uller space. The method uses a function f defined on the character variety, essentially the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Nigel Hitchin

For $\textrm{SL}(n,\mathbb{R})$ ($n\geq3$), $\textrm{SO}(n+1,n)$ ($n\geq2$), $\textrm{Sp}(2n,\mathbb{R})$ ($n\geq2$) and for the adjoint real split form of the exceptional group $\textrm{G}_2$, we exhibit non-uniform lattices in which we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Jacques Audibert

We study symplectic groups and indefinite orthogonal groups over involutive, possibly noncommutative, algebras $(A, \sigma)$. In the case when the algebra $(A, \sigma)$ is Hermitian, or the complexification $(A_{\mathbb{C}},…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Pengfei Huang , Georgios Kydonakis , Eugen Rogozinnikov , Anna Wienhard

We study the Hitchin map for $G_{\mathbb{R}}$-Higgs bundles on a smooth curve, where $G_{\mathbb{R}}$ is a quasi-split real form of a complex reductive algebraic group $G$. By looking at the moduli stack of regular $G_{\mathbb{R}}$-Higgs…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Oscar García-Prada , Ana Peón-Nieto

We consider the moduli spaces of representations of the fundamental group of a surface of genus g greater than 2 in the Lie groups SU(2,2) and Sp(4,R). It is well known that there is a characteristic number of such a representation, whose…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter B. Gothen

We study the limiting behavior of the solutions $h_t$ of the Hitchin's equation associated with a family of stable SU(1,2) Higgs bundles $(L,F,t\beta,t\gamma)$ on a compact connected Riemann surface $X$ as $t\to\infty$ under the assumption…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Xuesen Na

We give a spinorial representation of a submanifold of any dimension and co-dimension in a symmetric space $G/H,$ where $G$ is a complex semi-simple Lie group and $H$ is a compact real form of $G.$ This in particular includes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Pierre Bayard

Considering an integer $d>0$, we show the existence of convex-cocompactrepresentations of surface groups into SO(4,1) admitting an embedded minimal map withcurvatures in $(-1,1)$ and whose associated hyperbolic 4-manifolds are disk bundles…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Samuel Bronstein

In this paper we study $G$-Higgs bundles over an elliptic curve when the structure group $G$ is a classical complex reductive Lie group. Modifying the notion of family, we define a new moduli problem for the classification of semistable…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Emilio Franco , Oscar Garcia-Prada , P. E. Newstead