Simpson correspondence

In algebraic geometry, the Nonabelian Hodge correspondence or Corlette-Simpson correspondence (named after Kevin Corlette and Carlos Simpson) is a correspondence between Higgs bundles and representations of the fundamental group.

Unitary representations

For a compact Riemann surface X of genus at least 2, Narasimhan and Seshadri established a bijection between irreducible unitary representations of \pi_1(X) and the isomorphism classes of stable vector bundles of degree 0.[1] This was then extended to arbitrary complex smooth projective varieties by Uhlenbeck-Yau and by Donaldson.[2]

Arbitrary representations

These results were extended to arbitrary rank two complex representations of fundamental groups of curves by Hitchin [3] and Donaldson [4] and then in arbitrary dimension by Corlette [5] and Simpson[6][7], who established an equivalence of categories between the finite-dimensional complex representations of the fundamental group and the semi-stable Higgs bundles whose Chern class is zero.

References

  1. M.S. Narasimhan, C.S. Seshadri, Stable and unitary vector bundles on a compact Riemann surface, Ann. of Math. 82 (1965), 540–567
  2. S. Donaldson, Infinite determinants, stable bundles and curvature, Duke Math. J. 54 (1987), 231–247
  3. N. J. Hitchin, The self-duality equations on a Riemann surface Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. 55 no.1 1987, 59–126
  4. S. K. Donaldson Twisted harmonic maps and the self-duality equations Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. 55 no.1 1987, 127–131
  5. K. Corlette, Flat G-bundles with canonical metrics J. Differential Geometry 28 no. 3 1988 361–382
  6. C. T. Simpson, Nonabelian Hodge Theory, ICM talk, Kyoto 1990, http://ada00.math.uni-bielefeld.de/ICM/ICM1990.1/Main/icm1990.1.0747.0756.ocr.pdf
  7. C. T. Simpson, Higgs bundles and local systems. Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math. No. 75 (1992), 5–95
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