Representations of surface groups and Higgs bundles - I

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• Gothen, P (Universidade do Porto)
• Friday 07 January 2011, 10:00-11:00
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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Moduli Spaces

Classical Hodge theory uses harmonic forms as preferred representatives of cohomology classes. A representation of the fundamental group of a Riemann surface gives rise to a corresponding flat bundle. A Theorem of Donaldson and Corlette shows how to find a harmonic metric in this bundle. A flat bundle corresponds to class in first non-abelian cohomology and the Theorem can be viewed as an analogue of the classical representation of de Rham cohomology classes by harmonic forms.

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