Palestrante: Alessia Mandini (PUC-Rio)
Palestra: Hyperpolygons and parabolic Higgs bundles

Data: 06/06/2019
Horário: 12h
Local: C116

Resumo: Hyperpolygons spaces are a family of (finite dimensional, non-compact) hyperkaehler spaces, that can be obtained from coadjoint orbits by hyperkaehler reduction. Jointly with L. Godinho, we show that these space are diffeomorphic (in fact, symplectomorphic) to certain families of parabolic Higgs bundles. In this talk I will describe this relation and use it to analyse the fixed points locus of a natural involution on the moduli space of parabolic Higgs bundles. I will show that each connected components of the fixed point locus of this involution is identified with a moduli spaces of polygons in Minkowski 3-space.