Character varieties are geometric spaces parametrising representations of a surface group into a Lie group. Higgs bundles on the other hand were introduced by Hitchin in the 1980s with motivations from Physics, and arise in the study of holomorphic vector bundles over Riemann surfaces. These two intimately related concepts are linked by the famous non-abelian […]

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