Transgressive Harmonic Maps and SU(1,1) Self-Duality Solutions

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Autores principales: Heller, Sebastian, Schiemanowski, Lothar, Weiss, Hartmut
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author Heller, Sebastian
Schiemanowski, Lothar
Weiss, Hartmut
author_facet Heller, Sebastian
Schiemanowski, Lothar
Weiss, Hartmut
contents We establish a duality between harmonic maps from Riemann surfaces to hyperbolic 3-space $\mathbb{H}^3$ and harmonic maps from Riemann surfaces to de Sitter three-space $\operatorname{dS}_3$, best viewed as a generalized Gauss map. On the gauge theoretic side, it matches SU(2) and SU(1,1) solutions of Hitchin's self-duality equations via a signature flip along an eigenline of the Higgs field. Reversing this operation typically produces singular solutions, occurring where the eigenline becomes lightlike. Motivated by explicit model examples and this singular behavior, we extend this duality to a class of transgressive harmonic maps $f:M\to \mathbb{S}^3$: these are harmonic on the hemispheres equipped with the hyperbolic metric, intersect the equator orthogonally, and have vanishing Hopf differential along the crossing set. We construct large families by gluing and analyze their regularity, and as an application obtain $τ$-real negative sections of the Deligne--Hitchin moduli space of arbitrarily large energy that are not twistor lines.
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spellingShingle Transgressive Harmonic Maps and SU(1,1) Self-Duality Solutions
Heller, Sebastian
Schiemanowski, Lothar
Weiss, Hartmut
Differential Geometry
53C43
We establish a duality between harmonic maps from Riemann surfaces to hyperbolic 3-space $\mathbb{H}^3$ and harmonic maps from Riemann surfaces to de Sitter three-space $\operatorname{dS}_3$, best viewed as a generalized Gauss map. On the gauge theoretic side, it matches SU(2) and SU(1,1) solutions of Hitchin's self-duality equations via a signature flip along an eigenline of the Higgs field. Reversing this operation typically produces singular solutions, occurring where the eigenline becomes lightlike. Motivated by explicit model examples and this singular behavior, we extend this duality to a class of transgressive harmonic maps $f:M\to \mathbb{S}^3$: these are harmonic on the hemispheres equipped with the hyperbolic metric, intersect the equator orthogonally, and have vanishing Hopf differential along the crossing set. We construct large families by gluing and analyze their regularity, and as an application obtain $τ$-real negative sections of the Deligne--Hitchin moduli space of arbitrarily large energy that are not twistor lines.
title Transgressive Harmonic Maps and SU(1,1) Self-Duality Solutions
topic Differential Geometry
53C43
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09497