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Asymptotic Behavior of Certain Families of Higgs bundles in Hitchin Components

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April 16, 2015
Keywords:
  • Hitchin representation
  • Hitchin component
  • SL(n,R)
  • Higgs bundle
  • asymptotic geometry
  • compactifications of moduli spaces
  • Hitchin fibration
MSC:
  • 53D18
  • 14D20
  • 14D06
  • 14Dxx
  • 14-xx
  • 14D21
  • 30E15
Abstract
Hitchin component for $SL(n,R)$ is the component in the space of surface group representations into $SL(n,R)$ which can deform to Fuchsian locus. The Hitchin component is in correspondence with the moduli space of $SL(n,R)$-Higgs bundles. I will introduce recent work with Brian Collier on asymptotic behaviors of families in Hitchin component in terms of certain families of Higgs bundles. Namely, given a family of Higgs bundles by scaling Higgs field by $t$, we analyze the asymptotic behavior of the corresponding representations as $t$ goes to $\infty$ in two special cases.
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