Introduction to moduli spaces of parabolic Higgs bundles
Speaker:
Eric Korman, University of Texas at Austin
Date and Time:
Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Bahen Building, Room 1180
Abstract:
The moduli space of all parabolic Higgs bundles on a compact Riemann surface with marked points is naturally a holomorphic Poisson manifold. As such it has a foliation by holomorphic symplectic manifolds. These turn out to be hyperkahler manifolds in analogy to the moduli space of non-singular Higgs bundles. This, mostly expository talk, will be an introduction to these spaces and structures.