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The paper connects isomonodromic and isospectral deformations for $\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{C})$ connections.

The germ of the universal isomonodromic deformation of a logarithmic connection on a stable n-pointed genus g curve always exists in the analytic category. The first part of this paper investigates under which conditions it is the analytic germification of an algebraic isomonodromic deformation. Up to some minor techni…

We present a geometric setting for the differential Galois theory of $G$-invariant connections with parameters. As an application of some classical results on differential algebraic groups and Lie algebra bundles, we see that the Galois group of a connection with parameters with simple structural group $G$ is determine…

We study moduli spaces of meromorphic connections (with arbitrary order poles) over Riemann surfaces together with the corresponding spaces of monodromy data (involving Stokes matrices). Natural symplectic structures are found and described both explicitly and from an infinite dimensional viewpoint (generalising the At…

Symmetry reduction of Painlevé IV to Flaschka-Newell Painlevé II

The paper studies deformations and confluences of singularities in meromorphic connections and quadratic differentials.

Abstract: New geometric incarnation of isomonodromy functors.

New geometric Joyce structures on moduli spaces of quadratic differentials.

Study of defects in gauge theories connects quantum field theory to classical integrability.

Characterizes monodromies of projective structures on finite-type surfaces.

Summary of main work 1999-2012

Frobenius manifold structures on the spaces of abelian integrals were constructed by I. Krichever. We use D-modules, deformation theory, and homological algebra to give a coordinate-free description of these structures. It turns out that the tangent sheaf multiplication has a cohomological origin, while the Levi-Civita…

The aim of this paper is to establish an infinite dimensional generalization of the Schlesinger system -- a system of PDE's describing isomonodromic deformations of Fuchsian systems. This universal Schlesinger system first appeared in a paper by Korotkin and Samtleben in the finite dimensional case (i.e. when it reduce…

We study critical behaviour and connection problem for a Painleve' 6 equation. We construct solutions of WDVV eqs. using the isomonodromic deformation method and the Painleve' equations. We find algebraic solutions of WDVV and Gromov-Witten invariants of projective space.

In this paper we build a link between the Teichmuller theory of hyperbolic Riemann surfaces and isomonodromic deformations of linear systems whose monodromy group is the Fuchsian group associated to the given hyperbolic Riemann surface by the Poincare' uniformization. In the case of a one-sheeted hyperboloid with n orb…

We study the monodromy of meromorphic cyclic $\mathrm{SL}(n,\mathbb{C})$-opers on the Riemann sphere with a single pole. We prove that the monodromy map, sending such an oper to its Stokes data, is an immersion in the case where the order of the pole is a multiple of $n$. To do this, we develop a method based on the wo…

This paper deals with moduli spaces of framed principal bundles with connections with irregular singularities over a compact Riemann surface. These spaces have been constructed by Boalch by means of an infinite-dimensional symplectic reduction. It is proved that the symplectic structure induced from the Atiyah--Bott fo…

Analyzes tt*-structures from $ADE$-type Stokes data.

Study local wild mapping class groups for irregular connections on complex curves.

Generalizes isomonodromic-isospectral correspondence for twisted connections.

We give a complete description of finite braid group orbits in Aff(C)-character varieties of the punctured Riemann sphere. This is performed thanks to a coalescence procedure and to the theory of finite complex reflection groups. We then derive consequences in the theory of differential equations. These concern algebra…

In previous work, the authors have developed a geometric theory of fundamental strata to study connections on the projective line with irregular singularities of parahoric formal type. In this paper, the moduli space of connections that contain regular fundamental strata with fixed combinatorics at each singular point …

This paper, the third in a series, completes our description of all (radial) solutions on C* of the tt*-Toda equations, using a combination of methods from p.d.e., isomonodromic deformations (Riemann-Hilbert method), and loop groups. We place these global solutions into the broader context of solutions which are smooth…

First an `irregular Riemann-Hilbert correspondence' is established for meromorphic connections on principal G-bundles over a disc, where G is any connected complex reductive group. Secondly, in the case of poles of order two, isomonodromic deformations of such connections are considered and it is proved that the classi…

For each connected complex reductive group G, we find a family of new examples of complex quasi-Hamiltonian G-spaces with G-valued moment maps. These spaces arise naturally as moduli spaces of (suitably framed) meromorphic connections on principal G-bundles over a disc, and they generalise the conjugacy class example o…

Null Kähler metrics are characterized by Painlevé I or II ODEs.

A generic surface in Euclidean 3-space is determined uniquely by its metric and curvature. Classification of all special surfaces where this is not the case, i.e. of surfaces possessing isometries which preserve the mean curvature, is known as the Bonnet problem. Regarding the Bonnet problem, we show how analytic metho…

Paper constructs moduli spaces of Higgs bundles and connects them to Teichmüller space structures.

We propose a Lie-theoretic definition of the tt*-Toda equations for any complex simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$, based on the concept of topological-antitopological fusion which was introduced by Cecotti and Vafa. Our main result concerns the Stokes data of a certain meromorphic connection, whose isomonodromic deform…

Study actions of mapping class groups on surface representations, proving finite image for certain representations.

Two discretizations, linear and nonlinear, of basic notions of the complex analysis are considered. The underlying lattice is an arbitrary quasicrystallic rhombic tiling of a plane. The linear theory is based on the discrete Cauchy-Riemann equations, the nonlinear one is based on the notion of circle patterns. We clari…

Paper studies Frobenius manifolds and quantum differential equations, proving Dubrovin Conjecture for Hirzebruch surfaces.

Nous montrons que les équations du repère mobile des surfaces de Bonnet conduisent à une paire de Lax matricielle isomonodromique d'ordre deux pour la sixième équation de Painlevé. We show that the moving frame equations of Bonnet surfaces can be extrapolated to a second order, isomonodromic matrix Lax pair of the sixt…

In 2009 Gaiotto, Moore and Neitzke presented a new construction of hyperkähler metrics on the total spaces of certain complex integrable systems, represented as a torus fibration $\mathcal{M}$ over a base space $\mathcal{B}$, except for a divisor $D$ in $\mathcal{B}$, in which the torus fiber degenerates into a nodal t…

These notes partly touch the topic of the talk given by the author at the XXXVIII Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics, hold in June-July 2019 in Białowieża, Poland. They consist of a short and self-contained introduction to the isomonodromic approach to quantum cohomology, and Dubrovin's conjecture. An overview of…

Paper solves quantum differential equations for projective bundles using Borel multitransforms.

Paper connects Painlevé VI equation to irregular systems, solving monodromy data.

This dissertation is devoted to the resolution of the Plateau problem in the case of polygonal boundary curves in three-dimensional Euclidean space. It relies on the method developed by René Garnier and published in 1928 in a paper which seems today to be totally forgotten. Garnier's approach is more geometrical and co…

This paper constructs hyper-Kähler metrics and hyper-Lagrangian foliations for a class of complex manifolds.

This work has its origins in an attempt to describe systematically the integrable geometries and gauge theories in dimensions one to four related to twistor theory. In each such dimension, there is a nondegenerate integrable geometric structure, governed by a nonlinear integrable differential equation, and each solutio…

We provide an affirmative answer to a question posed by Tod \cite{Tod:1995b}, and construct all four-dimensional Kahler metrics with vanishing scalar curvature which are invariant under the conformal action of Bianchi V group. The construction is based on the combination of twistor theory and the isomonodromic problem …

Geometric formalism views optimization algorithms as discrete connections, revealing their algebraic curvature and flatness properties.

We define a Chern-Simons invariant for a certain class of infinite volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds. We then prove an expression relating the Bergman tau function on a cover of the Hurwitz space, to the lifting of the function $F$ defined by Zograf on Teichmüller space, and another holomorphic function on the cover of the…

A mathematical model describes deforming manifolds with precise vectors and fields.

Study YB operators and their deformations, finding integrable and nontrivial cases.

Smooth deformation of Moishezon manifolds preserves their Moishezon property.

In this paper, we study deformations of holomorphic Poisson maps which extend Horikawa's series of papers on deformations of holomorphic maps in the context of holomorphic Poisson deformations. In appendices, we present deformations of Poisson morphisms in the language of functors of Artin rings which is the algebraic …

In this paper we study the deformation theory of submanifolds characterized by a system of differential forms and provide a criterion for deformations of such submanifolds to be unobstructed. We apply this deformation theory to special Legendrian submanifolds in Sasaki-Einstein manifolds. In general, special Legendrian…