Develops relative harmonic metrics and deformation theory for Higgs and flat bundles on compact Kähler manifolds.
problem Analyzing harmonic metrics and deformations on Higgs and flat bundles on compact Kähler manifolds.
method Relative analytic theory, Sobolev completions, elliptic regularity, normalized gluing, plotwise smoothness, heat flow, harmonic filtrations, obstruction theory.
result Global smooth harmonic metrics exist for smooth stable Higgs families under certain conditions, and this theory extends to reduced singular parameter spaces.