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Harmonic metrics and semi-simpleness

Differential Geometry 2023-04-24 v1

Abstract

Given a flat vector bundle over a compact Riemannian manifold, Corlette and Donaldson proved that it admits harmonic metrics if and only if it is semi-simple. In this paper, we extend this equivalence to arbitrary vector bundles without any additional hypothesis, the result can be viewed as a Riemannian Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence. Furthermore, we also prove an equivalence of categories in Sasakian geometry, relating the category of projective flat complex vector bundles to the category of Higgs bundles.

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@article{arxiv.2304.10800,
  title  = {Harmonic metrics and semi-simpleness},
  author = {Di Wu and Xi Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.10800},
  year   = {2023}
}
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