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AaDAG seminar by David Baraglia (University of Adelaide)

Title: Monodromy of the Hitchin fibration

2017.04.12 | Jane Jamshidi

Date Wed 19 Apr
Time 16:15 17:15
Location 1530-325 (Aud. D3)

Abstract: The moduli space of Higgs bundles was shown by Hitchin to be an algebraically completely integrable system. In particular, the moduli space admits a fibration by abelian varieties, the famous Hitchin fibration. In this talk I will describe the monodromy of the SL(n) Hitchin fibration. The monodromy is given by a structure known as a skew-symmetric vanishing lattice, which is a skew-symmetric analogue of a root system. If time permits I will describe an application to counting components of character varieties.

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