High summer in Oxford and the students have gone to be replaced by tourists and generic summer schools. But before they left, we had a chat. Here's the first video, with the guys on the other side of the lectern for a change. And our apologies to Shing Fung whose name is spelt incorrectly in the captions.
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Non-maximal Toledo components
Abstract
The well-known Milnor-Wood inequality gives a bound on the Toledo invariant of a representation of the fundamental group of a compact surface in a non-compact Lie group of Hermitian type. While a lot is known regarding the counting of maximal Toledo components, and their role in higher Teichmueller theory, the non-maximal case remains elusive. In this talk, I will present a strategy to count the number of such non-maximal Toledo connected components. This is joint work in progress with Brian Collier and Jochen Heinloth, building on previous work with Olivier Biquard, Brian Collier and Domingo Toledo.