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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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RTG Colloquium

Edward Dewey

UCSD

Higgs Bundles, Spectral Covers, and their Characteristic Classes

Abstract:

A ``Higgs bundle" is essentially a family of matrices, and if you try to diagonalize one you get a "spectral cover." They arise in the study of moduli of vector bundles. I will introduce Higgs bundles and spectral covers, and then I will describe their cohomological invariants.

November 9, 2016

1:30 PM

AP&M 6402

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