Hitchin connection

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The Hitchin connection is a geometric connection on bundles of conformal blocks over Teichmüller space, central to the study of quantization, moduli spaces, and topological quantum field theory.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf geometric connection
mathematical concept
projectively flat connection
actsOn Verlinde bundles
spaces of conformal blocks
arisesFrom determinant line bundle with Quillen metric
geometric quantization of the moduli space of flat connections
variation of complex structures on a Riemann surface
associatedWith Chern–Simons theory
Verlinde formula
Wess–Zumino–Witten model
conformal field theory
geometric quantization
mapping class group representations
modular functors
moduli spaces
quantization of character varieties
quantization of moduli of flat connections
topological quantum field theory
definedFor compact Riemann surfaces
moduli of stable principal bundles
surfaces of genus at least 2
definedOn bundles of conformal blocks
moduli space of flat connections
moduli space of stable bundles
vector bundles over Teichmüller space
domain Teichmüller space
moduli space of complex structures on a surface
field algebraic geometry
differential geometry
low-dimensional topology
mathematical physics
generalizationOf Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov connection in genus zero
introducedBy Nigel Hitchin
property compatible with the mapping class group action
gives parallel transport of conformal blocks
holomorphic in the Teichmüller parameter
projectively flat over Teichmüller space
relatedTo Atiyah–Bott symplectic form
Goldman symplectic structure
Hitchin’s connection on the moduli of bundles
linked to: Hitchin connection

Hitchin’s projectively flat connection
Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov–Bernard connection
Quillen connection
usedIn construction of TQFTs from conformal field theory
construction of quantum representations of mapping class groups
geometric interpretation of conformal blocks
study of asymptotics of quantum invariants
study of quantum Teichmüller theory

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Nigel Hitchin notableFor Hitchin connection
Hitchin connection relatedTo Hitchin’s connection on the moduli of bundles
linked to: Hitchin connection