The many facets of geometry : a tribute to Nigel Hitchin / edited by Oscar García-Prada, Jean Pierre Bourguignon, Simon Salamon.

This title celebrates the academic career of Professor Nigel Hitchin - one of the most influential figures in the field of differential and algebraic geometry.

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Other Authors: Hitchin, N. J. (Nigel J.), 1946- (honouree.), García-Prada, O. (Oscar), 1960- (Editor), Bourguignon, J.-P. (Jean-Pierre), 1947- (Editor), Salamon, Simon (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Oxford science publications.
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245 0 4 |a The many facets of geometry :  |b a tribute to Nigel Hitchin /  |c edited by Oscar García-Prada, Jean Pierre Bourguignon, Simon Salamon. 
260 |a New York :  |b Oxford University Press,  |c 2010. 
300 |a 1 online resource (xviii, 434 pages) :  |b illustrations, 1 portrait 
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505 0 |a CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- LIST OF EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- 1 Geometry and physics: a personal view -- 2 Mathematical work of Nigel Hitchin -- 3 The Einsteinâ€?Maxwell equations, extremal KÃ?hler metrics, and Seibergâ€?Witten theory -- 4 The Nahm transform for calorons -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The work of Nye and Singer -- 4.2.1 Two types of invariant self-dual gauge fields on R4 -- 4.2.2 The Nahm transform -- 4.2.3 Involutivity of the transforms -- 4.3 Twistor transform for calorons/Kacâ€?Moody monopoles -- 4.3.1 Upstairs: twistor transform for calorons 
505 8 |a 4.3.2 Downstairs: caloron as a Kacâ€?Moody monopole4.4 From Nahm's equations to spectral data, and back -- 4.4.1 Flows of sheaves -- 4.4.2 Boundary conditions -- 4.5 Closing the circle -- 4.5.1 Starting with a caloron -- 4.5.2 Starting with a solution to Nahm's equation -- 4.5.3 From Nahm to caloron to Nahm to caloron -- 4.6 Moduli -- 5 Nahm's equations and free-boundary problems -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 An infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold -- 5.3 Three equivalent problems -- 5.3.1 Î? equation â?? Ï? equation -- 5.3.2 Î? equation â?? U equation 
505 8 |a 5.3.3 U equation â?? Î? equation5.4 Existence results and discussion -- 5.4.1 Mongeâ€?AmpÃ?re and the results of Chen -- 5.4.2 Comparison with the free-boundary literature -- 5.4.3 Degenerate case -- 5.5 Relation with Nahm's equations -- 6 Some aspects of the theory of Higgs pairs -- 6.1 Moduli of vector bundles -- 6.2 Hecke correspondence -- 6.3 Moduli of Higgs pairs -- 6.4 Higgs pairs and the fundamental group -- 6.5 Non-abelian Hodge theory -- 6.6 Hitchin morphism -- 6.7 Quantization -- 6.8 Hecke transformation and Hitchin discriminant 
505 8 |a 6.9 Hitchin component6.10 Reductive groups and principal bundles -- 6.11 Reductive groups and Higgs pairs -- 6.12 Real forms -- 7 Mirror symmetry, Hitchin's equations, and Langlands duality -- 7.1 A-model and B-model -- 7.2 Mirror symmetry and Hitchin's equations -- 7.3 Hitchin fibration -- 7.3.1 A few hints -- 7.4 Ramification -- 7.5 Wild ramification -- 7.6 Four-dimensional gauge theory and stacks -- 7.6.1 Stacks -- 8 Higgs bundles and geometric structures on surfaces -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Representations of the fundamental group 
505 8 |a 8.2.1 Closed surface groups8.2.2 Representation variety -- 8.2.3 Symmetries -- 8.2.4 Deformation space -- 8.3 Abelian groups and rank 1 Higgs bundles -- 8.3.1 Symplectic vector spaces -- 8.3.2 Multiplicative characters: G = C* -- 8.3.3 Jacobi variety of a Riemann surface -- 8.4 Stable vector bundles and Higgs bundles -- 8.5 Hyperbolic geometry: G = PSL(2, R) -- 8.5.1 Geometric structures -- 8.5.2 Relation to the fundamental group -- 8.5.3 Examples of hyperbolic structures -- 8.6 Moduli of hyperbolic structures and representations 
520 8 |a This title celebrates the academic career of Professor Nigel Hitchin - one of the most influential figures in the field of differential and algebraic geometry. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
650 0 |a Geometry, Differential. 
650 0 |a Geometry, Algebraic. 
650 0 |a Mathematical physics. 
650 7 |a MATHEMATICS  |x Geometry  |x General.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Geometry, Algebraic  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Geometry, Differential  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Mathematical physics  |2 fast 
700 1 |a Hitchin, N. J.  |q (Nigel J.),  |d 1946-  |e honouree. 
700 1 |a García-Prada, O.  |q (Oscar),  |d 1960-  |e editor. 
700 1 |a Bourguignon, J.-P.  |q (Jean-Pierre),  |d 1947-  |e editor. 
700 1 |a Salamon, Simon,  |e editor. 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |t Many facets of geometry.  |d New York : Oxford University Press, 2010  |z 9780199534920  |w (DLC) 2009034148  |w (OCoLC)435628712 
830 0 |a Oxford science publications. 
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