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Surface group representations to $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$ and Higgs bundles with smooth spectral data

Richard A Wentworth and Michael Wolf

Geometry & Topology 20 (2016) 3019–3032

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2016.20.3019

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