University of Toronto's Symplectic Geometry Seminar
September 4, 2007, 2:10pm BA 6183
Oscar Garcia-Prada
Maximal surface group representations and Higgs bundles
Abstract: We explain how Higgs bundles over a Riemann surface can
be used to study the moduli space of representations of the fundamental
group of the surface in the isometry group of a non-compact Hermitian
symmetric space.