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Prof. Nigel Hitchin FRS

MA, DPhil
Status
Emeritus

Savilian Professor of Geometry

+44 1865 273584
Contact form
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/hitchin/
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4484-7604
Research groups
  • Geometry
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
ALE Spaces and Nodal Curves
Hitchin, N The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics volume 76 issue 1 337-347 (17 Feb 2025)
Multiplicity algebras for rank 2 bundles on curves of small genus
Hitchin, N International Journal of Mathematics volume 35 issue 09 2441011 (17 Aug 2024)
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 (21 May 2022)
Spinors, twistors and classical geometry
Hitchin, N Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications volume 17 (10 Oct 2021)
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.

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