Research report 2013 - Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
Higgs bundles and representation varieties
Authors
Swoboda, Jan
Departments
Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn
Summary
We discuss the moduli space of solutions to Hitchin's selfduality equations and its connection with representation varieties. Afterwards some recent results concerning the degeneration profile of solutions for large Higgs fields will be presented.