Higgs bundles and surface group representations in the real symplectic group
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Higgs Bundles and Surface Group Representations in the Real Symplectic Group
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Topology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1753-8416
DOI: 10.1112/jtopol/jts030