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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.

Numerical experiments support conjecture about opers and nonabelian Hodge.

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.

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

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…

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

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

Extends Higgs fields theory to complex fiber bundles.

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

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…

Summary of main work 1999-2012

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.

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.

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

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…

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 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…

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…

In the background effective field theory of heterotic string theory, the Green-Schwarz anomaly cancellation mechanism plays a key role. Here we reinterpret it and its magnetic dual version in terms of differential twisted String- and differential twisted Fivebrane-structures that generalize the notion of Spin-structure…

Abelian gerbes and twisted bundles describe the topology of the NS-NS 3-form gauge field strength H. We review how they have been usefully applied to study and resolve global anomalies in open string theory. Abelian 2-gerbes and twisted nonabelian gerbes describe the topology of the 4-form field strength G of M-theory.…

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 .

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.

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

Sharp bounds found on nonabelian quotients of surface braid groups.

We give a way of constructing real variations of mixed Hodge structures over compact Kähler manifolds by using mixed Hodge structures on Sullivan's $1$-minimal models of certain differential graded algebras associated with real variations of Hodge structures.

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…

Higher gauge theory via differential nonabelian cohomology

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

We determine the structure of the Hodge ring, a natural object encoding the Hodge numbers of all compact Kaehler manifolds. As a consequence of this structure, there are no unexpected relations among the Hodge numbers, and no essential differences between the Hodge numbers of smooth complex projective varieties and tho…

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

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…

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

Sheng and Zuo's characteristic forms are invariants of a variation of Hodge structure. We show that they characterize Gross's canonical variations of Hodge structure of Calabi-Yau type over (Hermitian symmetric) tube domains.

Maps links in 3-manifolds to links in branched covers, relating quantum field theories.

New Sasaki structures identified by Hodge numbers in odd dimensions.

We study a generalization of Hodge structures which first appeared in the work of Cecotti and Vafa. It consists of twistors, that is, holomorphic vector bundles on P^1, with additional structure, a flat connection on C^*, a real subbundle and a pairing. We call these objects TERP-structures. We generalize to TERP-struc…

Study on complex variation of Hodge structures for non-Kähler manifolds.

We define the notion of a loop Hodge structure -- an infinite dimensional generalization of a Hodge structure -- and prove that a suitable variation of this object over a complex manifold is equivalent to the datum of a harmonic bundle. Hence one can study harmonic bundles using classical tools of Hodge theory, especia…

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…

New inequalities generalize Li's theorem on mixed Hodge structures.

The study proves rigidity for mixed Hodge structures and applies to curve families.

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

Proves modular functors for SO(3) have integral Hodge structures.

In this paper we prove the following results: $1)$ We show that any arithmetic quotient of a homogeneous space admits a natural real semi-algebraic structure for which its Hecke correspondences are semi-algebraic. A particularly important example is given by Hodge varieties, which parametrize pure polarized integral Ho…

Constructs a connection for Hodge theoretic projective structures on Riemann surfaces.