Convergence of Yang-Mills-Higgs flow for twist Higgs pairs on Riemann surfaces

Abstract

We consider the gradient flow of the Yang-Mills-Higgs functional of twist Higgs pairs on a Hermitian vector bundle $(E,H_0)$ over a Riemann surface $X$. It is already known the gradient flow with initial data $(A_0,\phi_0)$ converges to a critical point $(A_\infty, \phi_\infty)$ of this functional. Using a modified Chern-Weil type inequality, we prove that the limiting twist Higgs bundle $(E, d_{A_\infty}", \phi_\infty)$ is given by the graded twist Higgs bundle defined by the Harder-Narasimhan-Seshadri filtration of the initial twist Higgs bundle $(E,d_{A_0}",\phi_0)$, generalizing Wilkin's results for untwist Higgs bundle.