“…The existence of semistable Higgs bundles is related to a conjecture which was established in [5] (see [10] for a review). The conjecture is about an extension of the following result, first proved in Date: September 24, 2018 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 14F05, 14H60, 14J60 Keywords: Higgs bundles, Bogomolov inequality, restriction to curves, K3 surfaces Email: bruzzo@sissa.it, valeriano@ime.unicamp.br, alessiologiudic@gmail.com [12], which generalizes to higher dimensions Miyaoka's semistability criterion for bundles on curves [11].…”