arXiv research

Study families of flat connections with nilpotent Higgs fields, showing similar monodromy to regular Higgs bundles.

Study extended Bogomolny equations on curved space with special boundary conditions.

Study nilpotent Higgs bundles and Calabi-Yau moduli metrics.

The Gaiotto locus for Sp(2n) is shown to lie in the nilpotent cone.

Study shows unique harmonic metrics for certain Higgs bundles over non-compact surfaces.

The paper constructs solutions for Higgs fields on a 4-punctured sphere.

The study characterizes wobbly rank-2 bundles on Riemann surfaces using spectral curves.

Study quadratic one-forms on logarithmic Higgs bundles on pointed curves.

Let $E$ be a holomorphic vector bundle. Let $θ$ be a Higgs field, that is a holomorphic section of $End(E)\otimesΩ^{1,0}_X$ satisfying $θ^2=0$. Let $h$ be a pluriharmonic metric of the Higgs bundle $(E,θ)$. The tuple $(E,θ,h)$ is called a harmonic bundle. Let $X$ be a complex manifold, and $D$ be a normal crossing divi…

Let $(\mathcal{E}, φ)$ be a rank two co-Higgs vector bundles on a Kähler compact surface $X$ with $φ\in H^0(X,End(\mathcal{E})\otimes T_X)$ nilpotent. If $(\mathcal{E}, φ)$ is semi-stable, then one of the following holds up to finite \' etale cover: $i)$ $X$ is uniruled. $ii)$ $X$ is a torus and $(\mathcal{E}, φ)$ is s…

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

The paper studies Vafa-Witten equations on Kaehler manifolds and identifies obstructions to nontrivial solutions.

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…

In this paper we consider a canonical compactification of Hitchin's moduli space of stable Higgs bundles with fixed determinant of odd degree over a Riemann surface, producing a projective variety by gluing in a divisor at infinity. We give a detailed study of the compactified space, the divisor at infinity and the mod…

Removes singularities for Yang-Mills-Higgs fields in higher dimensions.

Study finds conditions for minimum of Donaldson's functional on Higgs bundles with non-holomorphic Higgs fields.

Researchers can retrieve Yang-Mills-Higgs fields from Minkowski space measurements.

The paper studies decay near singularities of 3d Yang-Mills-Higgs fields.

Study finds obstacles to solutions for specific equations on compact surfaces.

Study expanding Ricci solitons on vector bundles, reducing to Higgs bundle equations.

We demonstrate the agreement between the Higgs branches of two N=2 theories proposed by Argyres and Seiberg to be S-dual, namely the SU(3) gauge theory with six quarks, and the SU(2) gauge theory with one pair of quarks coupled to the superconformal theory with E_6 flavor symmetry. In mathematical terms, we demonstrate…

In this article, we study the Higgs vector bundles $(E,θ)$ over a compact Calabi-Yau manifolds $X$. We use Yang-Mills-Higgs flow to prove that if a semistable Higgs bundle with vanishing Chern classes over a compact connected Calabi-Yau manifold, then the Higgs field $θ$ is trivial. In particular, the vector bundle $E$…

Constructs geometric models for moduli spaces of Higgs bundles over Riemann sphere.

We define a `Higgs field' for a four-dimensional spin$^c$-manifold to be a smooth section of its positive half-spinor bundle, transverse to the zero section, and defined only up to a positive functional factor. This is intended to be a generalization of almost complex structures on real four-manifolds, each of which ma…

We study topology change in (2+1)D gravity coupling with non-Abelian SO(2,1) Higgs field from the point of view of Morse theory. It is shown that the Higgs potential can be identified as a Morse function. The critical points of the latter (i.e. loci of change of the spacetime topology) coincide with zeros of the Higgs …

The paper defines and analyzes higher-order Yang-Mills-Higgs functionals and their gradient flows.

In this paper, we introduce some notions on the pair consisting of a Chern connection and a Higgs field closely related to the first and second variation of Yang-Mills- Higgs functional, such as strong Yang-Mills-Higgs pair, degenerate Yang-Mills-Higgs pair, stable Yang-Mills-Higgs pair. We investigate some properties …

Improved sensitivity to Higgs potential through neural simulation-based inference for di-Higgs events.

In this paper we give an overview of different Morse-theoretic methods used to study the topology of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles.

The paper studies ray transforms on surfaces with negative curvature, proving injectivity and determining connections and Higgs fields.

On a complex manifold, a co-Higgs bundle is a holomorphic vector bundle with an endomorphism twisted by the tangent bundle. The notion of generalized holomorphic bundle in Hitchin's generalized geometry coincides with that of co-Higgs bundle when the generalized complex manifold is ordinary complex. Schwarzenberger's r…

The paper studies minimal surfaces in complex hyperbolic spaces, showing moduli space connected components.

The paper classifies vector fields on 5D nilpotent Lie groups.

We show that for a simple surface with boundary the attenuated ray transform in the presence of a unitary connection and a skew-Hermitian Higgs field is injective modulo the natural obstruction for functions and vector fields. We also show that the connection and the Higgs field are uniquely determined by the scatterin…

Study of limits of Einstein-Bogomol'nyi metrics on P^1 in two regimes.

Co-Higgs bundles are Higgs bundles in the sense of Simpson, but with Higgs fields that take values in the tangent bundle instead of the cotangent bundle. Given a vector bundle on P^1, we find necessary and sufficient conditions on its Grothendieck splitting for it to admit a stable Higgs field. We characterize the rank…

Classifies very stable Higgs bundles for complex groups.

The Kapustin-Witten equations on R^4 are equations for a pair of connection on the product principle SU(2) bundle and 1-form with values in the product Lie algebra bundle. The 1-form is the Higgs field. A dichotomy is proved to the effect that either the averaged norm of the Higgs field on large radius spheres grows fa…

Constructing transitive nilpotent Lie algebras from dilations and analyzing their prolongations.

Paper proves injectivity of non-abelian X-ray transform on certain spaces.

For a two-dimensional simple magnetic system, we study the attenuated magnetic ray transform $I_{A,Φ}$, with attenuation given by a unitary connection $A$ and a skew-Hermitian Higgs field $Φ$. We give a description for the range of $I_{A,Φ}$ acting on $\mathbb C^n$-valued tensor fields.

Transforms uniquely determine Higgs fields on real-analytic manifolds.

The paper studies the locus in the rank 2 Higgs bundle moduli space corresponding to points which are critical for d of the Poisson commuting functions. These correspond to the Higgs field vanishing on a divisor of degree D. The degree D critical locus has an induced integrable system related to K(-D)-twisted Higgs bun…

We study isolated singularities of two dimensional Yang-Mills-Higgs fields defined on a fiber bundle, where the fiber space is a compact Riemannian manifold and the structure group is a compact connected Lie group. In general the singularity can not be removed due to possibly non-vanishing limit holonomy around the sin…

The main result of this paper is a construction of solutions to the reverse Yang-Mills-Higgs flow converging in the $C^\infty$ topology to a critical point. The construction uses only the complex gauge group action, which leads to an algebraic classification of the isomorphism classes of points in the unstable set of a…

Extending work of Caffarelli-Yang and Tarantello, we present a variational existence proof for two-vortex solutions of the periodic Chern-Simons Higgs model and analyze the asymptotic behavior of these solutions as the parameter coupling the gauge field with the scalar field tends to 0.

The paper establishes analogs of Stallings' theorem for group homomorphisms and their nilpotent quotients.

Study on harmonic Higgs bundles with vanishing endormorphism and eigenvalues of Q.