Higgs bundles over non-compact Gauduchon manifolds

Zhang, Chuanjing; Zhang, Pan; Zhang, Xi

doi:10.1090/tran/8323

Higgs bundles over non-compact Gauduchon manifolds

Authors: Chuanjing Zhang, Pan Zhang and Xi Zhang
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 374 (2021), 3735-3759
MSC (2020): Primary 53C07, 14J60, 32Q15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/8323
Published electronically: January 21, 2021
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Abstract: In this paper, we prove a generalized Donaldson-Uhlenbeck-Yau theorem on Higgs bundles over a class of non-compact Gauduchon manifolds.

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