Prof. Nigel Hitchin FRS

MA, DPhil

Status

Emeritus

Savilian Professor of Geometry

ORCID iD

Research groups

Address

Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG

Recent books

The geometry and dynamics of magnetic monopoles Atiyah, M Hitchin, N (1988)

Monopoles, minimal surfaces and algebraic curves Hitchin, N (1987)

Recent publications

A Teichmüller space for negatively curved surfaces

Hitchin, N Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society volume 126 issue 3 837-1062 (27 Dec 2022)

Very stable Higgs bundles, equivariant multiplicity and mirror symmetry

Hausel, T Hitchin, N Inventiones Mathematicae volume 228 issue 2 893-989 (01 May 2022)

Spinors, twistors and classical geometry

Hitchin, N Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications volume 17 (10 Oct 2021)

The central sphere of an ALE space

Hitchin, N Quarterly Journal of Mathematics volume 72 issue 1-2 253-276 (15 Jan 2021)

Spinors, Lagrangians and rank 2 Higgs bundles

Hitchin, N Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society volume 115 issue 1 33-54 (19 Mar 2017)

Highlighted publications

Deformations of holomorphic Poisson manifolds

Hitchin, N Moscow Mathematical Journal volume 12 issue 3 567-591 (2011)

Stable bundles and polyvector fields

Hitchin, N Complex and Differential Geometry volume 8 135-156 (2011)

Generalized holomorphic bundles and the B-field action

Hitchin, N Journal of Geometry and Physics volume 61 352-362 (Jan 2011)

Poisson modules and generalized geometry

Hitchin, N Advanced Lectures in Mathematics volume 17 403-406 (2010)

Vector bundles and the icosahedron

Hitchin, N Contemporary Mathematics volume 522 71-87 (2010)

Research interests

Differential and algebraic geometry, and their interaction with the equations of theoretical physics.