Wednesday, June 24, 2026 2:00 pm
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3:30 pm
EDT (GMT -04:00)
Kaleb Ruscitti, University of Waterloo
Extending Hitchin's connection across nodal curves
Hitchin gave a projectively flat connection on the 'Verlinde bundle' over the moduli space of complex structures on a compact genus \(g>=2\) surface (Flat connections and geometric quantization, 1990). Such a surface can be deformed to a stable curve with nodal singularities, and I will discuss the extension of the Verlinde bundle and Hitchin's connection across such deformations.
MC 4058