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The paper broadens a mathematical correspondence to include more balanced metrics.

Numerical experiments support conjecture about opers and nonabelian Hodge.

Study Poisson metrics on noncompact Kähler manifolds and their Higgs bundle applications.

The Kapustin-Witten equations relate to nonabelian Hodge theory on Kähler surfaces.

We examine the relationship between nonabelian Hodge theory for Riemann surfaces and the theory of vector valued modular forms. In particular, we explain how one might use this relationship to prove a conjectural three-term inequality on the weights of free bases of vector valued modular forms associated to complex, fi…

We consider a simple and natural coboundary operator, on the Lie algebra valued differential forms on a manifold, which in the abelian case reduces to usual exterior derivative of such forms. Using the corresponding de Rham cohomology Lie superalgebra H*(M,G) we obtain numerical smooth invariants--as opposed to homotop…

Study on $GL(1|1)$ Higgs bundles over Riemann surfaces.

We generalise Simpson's nonabelian Hodge correspondence to the context of projective varieties with klt singularities. The proof relies on a descent theorem for numerically flat vector bundles along birational morphisms. In its simplest form, this theorem asserts that given any klt variety X and any resolution of singu…

The paper establishes a Lagrangian correspondence linking different geometric structures on complex varieties.

We refine the Morgan's work on mixed Hodge structures on Sullivan's $1$--minimal models by using non-abelian Hodge theory. As an application, we give explicit representatives of real unipotent variations of mixed Hodge structures over compact K"ahler manifolds.

Lecture notes from the Concentrated Graduate Course preceding the Workshop on Hodge Theory in String Theory at the Fields Institute in Toronto, November 11--15, 2013.

Paper generalizes Higgs bundle limits to parabolic setting.

On a complex curve, we establish a correspondence between integrable connections with irregular singularities, and Higgs bundles such that the Higgs field is meromorphic with poles of any order. The moduli spaces of these objects are obtained by fixing at each singularity the polar part of the connection. We prove that…

Paper connects geometric and analytic aspects of Higgs bundles and pleated surfaces.

Summary of main work 1999-2012

We prove a criterion for the existence of harmonic metrics on Higgs bundles that are defined on smooth loci of klt varieties. As one application, we resolve the quasi-etale uniformisation problem for minimal varieties of general type to obtain a complete numerical characterisation of singular quotients of the unit ball…

Extends Higgs fields theory to complex fiber bundles.

Short survey based on talk given at the Institut Henri Poincare January 17th 2012, during program on surface groups. The aim was to describe some background results before describing in detail (in subsequent talks) the results of [Boa11c] related to wild character varieties and irregular mapping class groups.

The paper establishes a correspondence between Higgs torsors and connections on curves.

The report presents the theory of harmonic maps from Kähler manifolds.

The worldvolume theory of coincident M5-branes is expected to contain a nonabelian 2-form/nonabelian gerbe gauge theory that is a higher analog of self-dual Yang-Mills theory. But the precise details -- in particular the global moduli / instanton / magnetic charge structure -- have remained elusive. Here we deduce from…

We introduce Dolbeault cohomology valued characteristic classes of Higgs bundles over complex manifolds. Flat vector bundles have characteristic classes lying in odd degree de Rham cohomology and a theorem of Reznikov says that these must vanish in degrees three and higher over compact Kähler manifolds. We provide a si…

We give hodge structures on quasitoric orbifolds. We define orbifold hodge numbers and show a correspondence of orbifold hodge numbers for crepant resolutions of quasitoric orbifolds. In short we extend hodge structures to a non complex setting .

Introduces non-abelian Hodge correspondence linking algebraic structures to geometry.

Proves Hodge structures on modular functors, providing formulas for Hodge numbers.

We consider the geometric properties of Hodge Cousin groups, introduced in an unpublished paper \cite{OVV}, emphasizing the case of Hodge Cousin groups corresponding to polarized $\mathbb{Q}$-Hodge structures. Basing on this consideration, we introduce the class of abelian Cousin groups and prove an analogue of Poincar…

We construct Hodge filtered function spaces associated to infinite loop spaces. For Brown-Peterson cohomology, we show that the corresponding Hodge filtered spaces satisfy an analog of Wilson's unstable splitting. As a consequence, we obtain an analog of Quillen's theorem for Hodge filtered Brown-Peterson cohomology fo…

For a complex simple simply connected Lie group $G$, and a compact Riemann surface $C$, we consider two sorts of families of flat $G$-connections over $C$. Each family is determined by a point ${\mathbf u}$ of the base of Hitchin's integrable system for $(G,C)$. One family $\nabla_{\hbar,{\mathbf u}}$ consists of $G$-o…

New surface observables yield 2-knot invariants in nonabelian theories.

Paper extends Hodge correspondence to singular Kähler spaces.

Resolves conjectures on non-abelian Hodge loci for quasi-projective varieties.

Establishes correspondence between Calabi-Yau and Landau-Ginzburg structures.

Sharp bounds found on nonabelian quotients of surface braid groups.

New representation theory for surface groups to SO0(2,3).

Study describes moduli spaces of flat bundles on Sasakian manifolds.

Study Higgs bundles and flat connections on quasi-regular Sasakian manifolds.

We construct a 2-dimensional twisted nonabelian multiplicative integral. This is done in the context of a Lie crossed module (an object composed of two Lie groups interacting), and a pointed manifold. The integrand is a connection-curvature pair, that consists of a Lie algebra valued 1-form and a Lie algebra valued 2-f…

Proves Kato manifolds satisfy Hodge decomposition.

Higher gauge theory via differential nonabelian cohomology

This work connects Higgs bundles to Calabi-Yau manifolds via mirror symmetry.

It is shown that the integrability conditions of the equations satisfied by the local Frenet frame associated with a holomorphic curve in a complex Grassmann manifold coincide with a special class of nonabelian Toda equations. A local moving frame of a holomorphic immersion of a Riemann surface into a complex Grassmann…

The Hodge spectra help distinguish orbifolds from manifolds with singularities.

Period domains, the classifying spaces for (pure, polarized) Hodge structures, and more generally Mumford-Tate domains, arise as open $G_{\mathbb{R}}$--orbits in flag varieties $G/P$. We investigate Hodge--theoretic aspects of the geometry and representation theory associated with these flag varieties. In particular, w…

An interesting theme in complex differential geometry is to find a correspondence between algebraic objects and differential geometric objects. One of the most attractive is the non-abelian Hodge theory of Simpson. In this paper, pursuing an analogue of the non-abelian Hodge theory in the context of $q$-difference modu…

Researchers study injectivity of magnetic and thermostatic nonabelian ray transforms on compact surfaces.

The Hodge series of a finite matrix group is the generating function for invariant exterior forms of specified order and degree. Lauret, Miatello, and Rossetti gave examples of pairs of non-conjugate cyclic groups having the same Hodge series; the corresponding space forms are isospectral for the Laplacian on p-forms f…

A cyclic cover over the Riemann sphere branched at four points inherits a natural flat structure from the "pillow" flat structure on the basic sphere. We give an explicit formula for all individual Lyapunov exponents of the Hodge bundle over the corresponding arithmetic Teichmuller curve. The key technical element is e…

Two projective structures on Riemann surfaces are described and shown not to be identical.