The author establishes the correspondence between tame harmonic bundles and \(\mu _L\)-polystable parabolic Higgs bundles with trivial characteristic numbers. He also shows the Bogomolov-Gieseker type inequality for \(\mu _L\)-stable parabolic Higgs bundles.

The author shows that any local system on a smooth quasiprojective variety can be deformed to a variation of polarized Hodge structure. He then concludes that some kind of discrete groups cannot be a split quotient of the fundamental group of a smooth quasiprojective variety.

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Readership

Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Preliminary
• Parabolic Higgs bundle and regular filtered Higgs bundle
• An ordinary metric for a parabolic Higgs bundle
• Parabolic Higgs bundle associated to tame harmonic bundle
• Preliminary correspondence and Bogomolov-Gieseker inequality
• Construction of a frame
• Some convergence results
• Existence of adapted pluri-harmonic metric
• Torus action and the deformation of representations
• \(G\)-harmonic bundle
• Bibliography