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Higgs bundles for real groups and the Hitchin-Kostant-Rallis section (1511.02611v2)

Published 9 Nov 2015 in math.AG and math.DG

Abstract: We consider the moduli space of polystable $L$-twisted $G$-Higgs bundles over a compact Riemann surface $X$, where $G$ is a real reductive Lie group, and $L$ is a holomorphic line bundle over $X$. Evaluating the Higgs field at a basis of the ring of polynomial invariants of the isotropy representation, one defines the Hitchin map. This is a map to an affine space, whose dimension is determined by $L$ and the degrees of the polynomials in the basis. Building up on the work of Kostant-Rallis and Hitchin, in this paper, as a first step in the study of the Hitchin map, we construct a section of this map. This generalizes the section constructed by Hitchin when $L$ is the canonical line bundle of $X$ and $G$ is complex. In this case the image of the section is related to the Hitchin-Teichm\"uller components of the moduli space of representations of the fundamental group of $X$ in $G_{\mathrm{Split}}$, a split real form of $G$. In fact, our construction is very natural in that we can start with the moduli space for $G_{\mathrm{Split}}$, instead of $G$, and construct the section for the Hitchin map for $G_{\mathrm{Split}}$ directly. The construction involves the notion of maximal split subgroup of a real reductive Lie group.

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