Prof. Nigel Hitchin FRS
MA, DPhil
Status
Emeritus
Savilian Professor of Geometry
Research groups
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Recent books
Recent publications
A Teichmüller space for negatively curved surfaces
Hitchin, N Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (27 Dec 2022) Very stable Higgs bundles, equivariant multiplicity and mirror symmetry
Hausel, T Hitchin, N Inventiones Mathematicae (01 Jan 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.