Higgs bundles and surface group representations in non-compact real groups
Bradlow, S (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Monday 14 March 2011, 10:00-11:00
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Abstract
We will describe how Higgs bundles, inherently holomorphic objects, are related to surface group representations in non-compact real Lie groups and how this relationship can be used to answer questions about the corresponding representation varieties. The real group Sp(4,R) will be given special attention.
