Organizers:Federico Bongiorno, Theodoros PapazachariouSpeaker:Ruadhai Dervan (University of Warwick)Time:Wed., 15:30-16:30, Jan. 14, 2026Venue:B725, Shuangqing Complex Building AOnline:Zoom Meeting ID: 262 865 5007 Passcode: YMSCVenue:Metric wall-crossingAbstract:When a reductive group acts on a projective variety, a choice of (linearised) ample line bundle gives a choice of quotient. Wall...
Abstract:The Hitchin morphism is a map from the moduli space of Higgs bundles to the Hitchin base, which is generally not surjective when the dimension of the variety is greater than one. Chen-Ngo introduced the concept of the spectral base, which is a closed subscheme of the Hitchin base. They conjectured that the Hitchin morphism is surjective to the spectral base and also proved that the su...