Geometric Structures for the $G_2^{\prime }$-Hitchin Component

Parker Evans

We give an explicit geometric structures interpretation of the $G_2^{\prime }$-Hitchin component $Hit(S,G_2^{\prime })\subset \chi ({\pi }_{1}S,G_2^{\prime })$ of a closed oriented surface $S$ of genus $g\ge 2$. In…