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In this note we study some analytic properties of the linearized self-duality equations on a family of smooth Riemann surfaces $Σ_R$ converging for $R\searrow0$ to a surface $Σ_0$ with a finite number of nodes. It is shown that the linearization along the fibres of the Hitchin fibration gives rise to a graph-continuous…

Triality connects three polynomial bases in Lie algebra studies.

Study of Hitchin moduli spaces over Teichmüller space.

We compute the monodromy of the Hitchin fibration for the moduli space of $L$-twisted $SL(n,\mathbb{C})$ and $GL(n,\mathbb{C})$-Higgs bundles for any $n$, on a compact Riemann surface of genus $g>1$. We require the line bundle $L$ to either be the canonical bundle or satisfy $deg(L) > 2g-2$. The monodromy group is gene…

We study hyperkahler metrics and hyperholomorphic connections of Hitchin's moduli spaces after Gaiotto, Moore and Neitzke. Their construction via the twistor technique produces intricate wall crossing behaviors. For certain four dimensional Hitchin's moduli spaces local models and degeneration to local models near sing…

The paper explores Higgs bundles and their moduli spaces on Riemann surfaces.

We present an overview of some recent applications of Higgs bundles and the Hitchin fibration.

In this paper, we study rational sections of the relative Picard scheme of a linear system on a smooth projective variety. We prove that if the linear system is basepoint-free and the locus of non-integral divisors has codimension at least two, then all rational sections of the relative Picard scheme come from restrict…

In this paper, we study the monodromy of the Hitchin fibration for rank 2 vector bundles over hyperelliptic curves. We reduce the problem to studying a surface braid group generalization of the classical Burau representation, and give a combinatorial method for computing this representation.

We establish global existence of smooth solutions to heat flow for Yang-Mills-Higgs functional on Kahler fibrations. As an application, we give a new proof of the key inequality for Mundet's Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence theorem using the heat flow technique.

Study confirms Chern's conjecture on compact Hessian manifolds and classifies their topologies.

The Ooguri-Vafa space is a 4-dimensional incomplete hyperkähler manifold, defined on the total space of a singular torus fibration with one singular nodal fiber. It has been proposed that the Ooguri-Vafa hyperkähler metric should be part of the local model of the hyperkähler metric of the Hitchin moduli spaces, near th…

Describes spectral data for singular fibres of a specific Hitchin system.

Study asymptotics of hyperkähler geometry on singular fibers of Hitchin moduli space.

Paper studies compactifications of Higgs bundles and self-duality equations.

We define and study spectral data associated to U(m,m)-Higgs bundles through the Hitchin fibration. We give a new interpretation of the topological invariants involved, as well as a geometric description of the moduli space.

The article describes canonical metrics on holomorphic fibre bundles.

New equations reveal moduli space rigidity in geometric deformations.

We examine Higgs bundles for non-compact real forms of SO(4,C) and the isogenous complex group SL(2,C)XSL(2,C). This involves a study of non-regular fibers in the corresponding Hitchin fibrations and provides interesting examples of non-abelian spectral data.

Mid-dimensional $(A,B,A)$ and $(B,B,B)$-branes in the moduli space of flat $G_{\mathbb C}$-connections appearing from finite group actions on compact Riemann surfaces are studied. The geometry and topology of these spaces is then described via the corresponding Higgs bundles and Hitchin fibrations.

We show that for every nonelementary representation of a surface group into $SL(2,{\mathbb C})$ there is a Riemann surface structure such that the Higgs bundle associated to the representation lies outside the discriminant locus of the Hitchin fibration.

Let $M$ be a holomorphic symplectic Kähler manifold equipped with a Lagrangian fibration $π$ with compact fibers. The base of this manifold is equipped with a special Kähler structure, that is, a Kähler structure $(I, g, ω)$ and a symplectic flat connection $\nabla$ such that the metric $g$ is locally the Hessian of a …

In this paper, we introduce a generalization of G-opers for arbitrary parabolic subgroups P<G. For parabolic subgroups associated to even nilpotents, we parameterize (G,P)-opers by an object generalizing the base of the Hitchin fibration. In particular, we describe families of opers associated to higher Teichmuller spa…

Develops complex harmonic maps for Teichmüller theory, proving new theorems.

We continue the study of the Strominger-Yau-Zaslow mirror symmetry conjecture. Roughly put, this states that if two Calabi-Yau manifolds X and Y are mirror partners, then X and Y have special Lagrangian torus fibrations which are dual to each other. Much work on this conjecture is necessarily of a speculative nature, a…

We construct Dirac operators on foliations by applying the Bismut-Lebeau analytic localization technique to the Connes fibration over a foliation. The Laplacian of the resulting Dirac operators has better lower bound than that obtained by using the usual adiabatic limit arguments on the original foliation. As a consequ…

Energy functional on Teichmüller space is plurisubharmonic but not strictly so.

A principal pair consists of a holomorphic principal $G$-bundle together with a holomorphic section of an associated Kaehler fibration. Such objects support natural gauge theoretic equations coming from a moment map condition, and also admit a notion of stability based on Geometric Invariant Theory. The Hitchin--Kobaya…

Through Cayley and Langlands type correspondences, we give a geometric description of the moduli spaces of real orthogonal and symplectic Higgs bundles of any signature in the regular fibres of the Hitchin fibration. As applications of our methods, we complete the concrete abelianization of real slices corresponding to…

The study shows how energy density of harmonic maps dominates in $n$-Fuchsian fibers, leading to unique minimal surfaces.

In this paper, we investigate the geometry of asymptotically flat manifolds with controlled holonomy. We show that any end of such manifold admits a torus fibration over an ALE end. In addition, we prove a Hitchin-Thorpe inequality for oriented Ricci-flat $4$-manifolds with curvature decay and controlled holonomy. As a…

These notes have been prepared as reading material for the mini-course given by the author at the "2019 Graduate Summer School" at Park City Mathematics Institute - Institute for Advanced Study. We begin by introducing Higgs bundles and their main properties (Lecture 1), and then we discuss the Hitchin fibration and it…

The paper studies the moduli space of Higgs pairs and their geometric properties.

Study very stable Higgs bundles on Riemann surfaces, linking to multiplicity and mirror symmetry.

For the moduli space of Higgs bundles on a Riemann surface of positive genus, critical points of the natural Morse-Bott function lie along the nilpotent cone of the Hitchin fibration and are representations of $\mbox{A}$-type quivers in a twisted category of holomorphic bundles. The critical points that globally minimi…

Surveying Hitchin representations of Fuchsian groups.

We study the Hitchin component in the space of representations of the fundamental group of a Riemann surface into a split real simple Lie group in the rank 2 case. We prove that such representations are described by a conformal structure and class of Higgs bundle we call cyclic and we show cyclic Higgs bundles correspo…

In this thesis we study the topology and geometry of hyperkähler quotients, as well as some related non-compact Kähler quotients, from the point of view of Hamiltonian group actions. The main technical tool we employ is Morse theory with moment maps. We prove a Lojasiewicz inequality which permits the use of Morse theo…

Defines and parametrizes $\mathfrak{sl}(2)$-type singular fibres in symplectic and odd orthogonal Hitchin systems.

Real projective surfaces with Hitchin holonomy can be related via grafting.

Generic Hitchin representations generate dense subgroups.

New estimates for Hitchin's equations at high energy.

Study shows rapid decay of Hitchin metric from semi-flat metric on Higgs bundles.

Study of a basic Hitchin equation on Sasakian 3-folds, showing hyperKähler metric.

Study pressure metrics for cusped Hitchin representations.

Study on harmonic metrics for rank 3 Higgs bundles in Hitchin section.

We survey some recent developments in the asymptotic geometry of the Hitchin moduli space, starting with an introduction to the Hitchin moduli space and hyperkähler geometry.

The Bialynicki-Birula decomposition of the space of lambda-connections restricts to the Morse stratification on the moduli space of Higgs bundles and to the partial oper stratification on the de Rham moduli space of holomorphic connections. For both the Morse and partial oper stratifications, every stratum is a holomor…