{
  "id": "1209.0568",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2012-09-04T08:51:40.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-09-04T08:51:40.000Z",
  "title": "Representations of surface groups and Higgs bundles",
  "authors": [
    "Peter B. Gothen"
  ],
  "comment": "25 pages",
  "categories": [
    "math.AG",
    "math.DG"
  ],
  "abstract": "These are the lecture notes from my course in the January 2011 School on Moduli Spaces at the Newton Institute. I give an introduction to Higgs bundles and their application to the study of character varieties for surface group representations.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2012-09-04T08:51:40.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "14H60",
      "53C07",
      "58D29"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "higgs bundles",
      "surface group representations",
      "lecture notes",
      "character varieties",
      "newton institute"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 25,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1184551,
      "adsabs": "2012arXiv1209.0568G"
    }
  }
}