Higgs bundles and characteristic classes
Abstract
We calculate the characteristic classes for flat SL(n,R) and Sp(2m,R)-bundles over a compact surface as functions of the spectral data in the Higgs bundle description, which consists of the points of order 2 in an abelian variety. Using similar methods we produce a conjectural mirror for the moduli space of flat U(m,m)-bundles with a fixed characteristic class. This is a hyperholomorphic bundle over the Sp(2m,C)-moduli space.
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