Geodesic-coordinate conjecture for the pressure metric on the Hitchin component

Let SS be a closed oriented surface with genus g2g\geq 2 and n4n\geq 4. For any point σT(S)Hn(S)\sigma\in \mathcal{T}(S) \subset \mathcal{H}_{n}(S), let XX be the Riemann surface corresponding to σ\sigma. The Hitchin parametrization

i=2i=nH0(X,Ki)\bigoplus\limits_{i=2}^{i=n} H^{0}(X,K^i)

provides geodesic coordinates for the pressure metric at σ\sigma. The conjecture extends the theorem established in the paper for the previously treated case to all Hitchin components Hn(S)\mathcal{H}_{n}(S) with n4n\geq 4; whether this geodesic-coordinate property holds in those higher-rank cases remains open.

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Xian Dai, “Geodesic Coordinates for the Pressure Metric at the Fuchsian Locus”, arXiv:1910.00792 (2021).

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