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Restricting Higgs bundles to curves

Algebraic Geometry 2016-07-12 v3

Abstract

We determine some classes of varieties X - that include the varieties with numerically effective tangent bundle - satisfying the following property: if E is a Higgs bundle such that f*E is semistable for any morphism f from a smooth projective curve to X, then E is slope semistable and the discriminant of E is zero in H4(X,R). We also characterize some classes of varieties such that the underlying vector bundle of a slope semistable Higgs bundle is always slope semistable.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1310.2099,
  title  = {Restricting Higgs bundles to curves},
  author = {Ugo Bruzzo and Alessio Lo Giudice},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.2099},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

11 pages. v2: 12 pages, final version to appear in Asian J. Math

R2 v1 2026-06-22T01:42:26.726Z