Morse Theory, Higgs fields and Yang-Mills-Higgs functionals

Abstract

In this paper we give an overview of different Morse-theoretic methods used to study the topology of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles.

38 pages, J. Fixed Point Theory Appl. 11 (2012), no. 1

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• The Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence, Higgs pairs and surface group representations
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