Cayley correspondence conjecture for higher Teichmüller components

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Let XX be a compact Riemann surface, let Σ \Sigma be its underlying surface, and let GR\mathrm{G}^\mathbb{R} be a simple Lie group. Write M(X,GR){\mathcal M}(X,\mathrm{G}^\mathbb{R}) for the moduli space of GR\mathrm{G}^\mathbb{R}-Higgs bundles and X(Σ,GR){\mathcal X}(\Sigma,\mathrm{G}^\mathbb{R}) for the character variety. Under the nonabelian Hodge correspondence between these spaces, the Cayley components in M(X,GR){\mathcal M}(X,\mathrm{G}^\mathbb{R}) correspond to the higher Teichmüller components in X(Σ,GR){\mathcal X}(\Sigma,\mathrm{G}^\mathbb{R}). Cayley correspondence conjecture. Moreover, the list of Cayley components completes the classification of connected components in M(X,GR){\mathcal M}(X,\mathrm{G}^\mathbb{R}) for every simple Lie group GR\mathrm{G}^\mathbb{R}. This would identify all components arising from the Cayley correspondence with the higher Teichmüller components and settle whether the components found in the paper exhaust the components of Θ\Theta-positive representations. The source presents this as an open conjecture.

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Steve Bradlow, Brian Collier, Oscar Garcia-Prada, Peter Gothen and André Oliveira, “A general Cayley correspondence and higher Teichmüller spaces”, arXiv:2101.09377 (2024).

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