Chow-theoretic Chern class conjecture for stable Higgs bundles

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Let XX be a smooth projective variety of dimension dd over an algebraically closed field kk, let HH be an ample divisor on XX, and let (E,θ)(E,\theta) be a slope HH-stable Higgs vector bundle of rank rr satisfying

XΔ(E)Hd2=0,\int_X\Delta(E)\cdot H^{d-2}=0,

where Δ(E)=2rc2(E)(r1)c1(E)2\Delta(E)=2r c_2(E)-(r-1)c_1(E)^2. Assume that for every smooth projective variety Y/kY/k and every generically finite map f:YXf:Y\to X, the pullback Higgs sheaf f(E,θ)f^*(E,\theta) is slope stable with respect to some ample divisor. Stable Higgs Chern class conjecture. For every i1i\geq 1,

rici(E)=(ri)c1(E)iin CHi(X)Q.r^i c_i(E)=\binom{r}{i}c_1(E)^i\quad\text{in }\operatorname{CH}^i(X)_{\mathbb Q}.

The numerical discriminant condition gives the same identities in de Rham cohomology, and the conjecture asks for their Chow-theoretic refinement. It is open in general.

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Primary source

Adrian Langer, “On algebraic Chern classes of flat vector bundles”, arXiv:2107.03127 (2021).

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