AbstractThe long-standing Nakai Conjecture concerns a very natural question: can diferential operatorsdetect singularities on algebraic varieties? On a smooth complex variety, it is well known that theing of differential operators is generated by derivations. Nakai asked whether the converse holds: ifthe ring of differential operators is generated by derivations, is the variety smooth? We will ...
AbstractIf C is a smooth projective complex curve, the nonabelian Hodge correspondence gives adiffeomorphism between the coarse moduli space of degree d rank r semistable Higgs bundles onC, and r-dimensional d-twisted representations of the fundamental group of the underlying Riemannsurface of C. lf r and d are not coprime, there are strictly semistables with nontrivial stabilizers, andit perha...