Event

Talk
Higgs bundles on Riemann surfaces
Prof. Dr. Oscar Garcia-Prada
11 May 2010, 16:00 – 17:00

Higgs bundles on Riemann surfaces were introduced by Hitchin in the mid 1980s. After giving some background on how they originated from the study of Yang-Mills connections, and describing their main properties, we show how they can be used to study representations of the fundamental group of the surface into a real reductive Lie group.