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Markman, Eyal; Xia, Eugene Z.

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The Construction Problem in Kähler Geometry

Simpson

2004

International Mathematical Series

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One of the most surprising things in algebraic geometry is the fact that algebraic varieties over the complex numbers benefit from a collection of metric properties which strongly influence their topological and geometric shapes. The existence of a Kähler metric leads to all sorts of Hodge theoretical restrictions on the homotopy types of algebraic varieties. On the other hand, a sparse collection of examples shows that the remaining liberty is nontrivially large. Paradoxically, with all of this information, the research field remains as wide open as it was many decades ago, because the gap between the known restrictions, and the known examples of what can occur, only seems to grow wider and wider the more closely we look at it.In spite of the differential-geometric nature of the questions and methods, the origins of the situation are very algebraic. We look at subvarieties of projective space over the complex numbers. The main over-arching problem in algebraic geometry is to understand the classification of algebro-geometric objects. The topology of the usual complex-valued points of a variety plays an important role, because the topological type is a locally constant function on any classifying space. Thus the partitioning of the classification problem according to topological type provides a coarse, and more calculable, alternative to the partition by connected components. Furthermore, the topology of a variety strongly influences its geometric properties. A sociological observation is that the quest for understanding the topology of algebraic varieties has led to a rich set of techniques which found applications elsewhere, even in physics.Perhaps a word about the choice of ground field is appropriate. One could also look at the shapes of the real points of real algebraic varieties. However, by Weierstrass approximation, pretty much anything can arise if you let the degree get big enough. Thus the classical question in this case is "which shapes can occur for a given degree?" This is so much more difficult 1

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The Construction Problem in Kähler Geometry

Simpson

2004

International Mathematical Series

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Moduli spaces of holomorphic triples over compact Riemann surfaces

Bradlow

Garcı́a-Prada

Gothen

2004

Mathematische Annalen

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A holomorphic triple over a compact Riemann surface consists of two holomorphic vector bundles and a holomorphic map between them. After fixing the topological types of the bundles and a real parameter, there exist moduli spaces of stable holomorphic triples. In this paper we study non-emptiness, irreducibility, smoothness, and birational descriptions of these moduli spaces for a certain range of the parameter. Our results have important applications to the study of the moduli space of representations of the fundamental group of the surface into unitary Lie groups of indefinite signature, which we explore in a companion paper "Surface group representations in PU(p,q) and Higgs bundles". Another application, that we study in this paper, is to the existence of stable bundles on the product of the surface by the complex projective line. This paper, and its companion mentioned above, form a substantially revised version of math.AG/0206012.Comment: 44 pages. v2: minor clarifications and corrections, to appear in Math. Annale

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Maximal surface group representations in isometry groups of classical Hermitian symmetric spaces

2007

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Higgs bundles and non-abelian Hodge theory provide holomorphic methods with which to study the moduli spaces of surface group representations in a reductive Lie group G. In this paper we survey the case in which G is the isometry group of a classical Hermitian symmetric space of non-compact type. Using Morse theory on the moduli spaces of Higgs bundles, we compute the number of connected components of the moduli space of representations with maximal Toledo invariant

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Cited by 11 publications

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The Construction Problem in Kähler Geometry

The Construction Problem in Kähler Geometry

Moduli spaces of holomorphic triples over compact Riemann surfaces

Maximal surface group representations in isometry groups of classical Hermitian symmetric spaces

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