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Arakelov–Milnor inequalities and maximal variations of Hodge structure

ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY & NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR

Date: Thursday, March 25, 2021 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker: Oscar Garcia-Prada (ICMAT, Spain)
Location: https://mathseminars.org/seminar/AGNTISTA
Series: Mathematics and CS Seminar
Host: Tamas Hausel

In this talk we study the fixed points under the action of the multiplicative group of non-vanishing complex numbers on moduli spaces of Higgs bundles over a compact Riemann surface for complex semisimple Lie groups and their real forms. These fixed points are called Hodge bundles and correspond to complex variations of Hodge structure. We introduce a topological invariant for Hodge bundles that generalizes the Toledo invariant appearing for Hermitian Lie groups. A main result to discuss is a bound on this invariant which generalizes both the Milnor–Wood inequality of the Hermitian case, and the Arakelov inequalities of classical variations of Hodge structure. When the generalized Toledo invariant is maximal, we establish rigidity results for the associated variations of Hodge structure which generalize known rigidity results for maximal Higgs bundles and their associated maximal representations in the Hermitian case (based on joint work with Olivier Biquard, Brian Collier and Domingo Toledo).


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