Prym-Tjurin varieties and the Hitchin map.
We give a sufficient condition for a hermitian holomorphic vector bundle over the disk to be quasi-isometric to the trivial bundle. One consequence is a version of Cartan's lemma on the factorization of matrices with uniform bounds.
We study the Jones and Tod correspondence between selfdual conformal -manifolds with a conformal vector field and abelian monopoles on Einstein-Weyl -manifolds, and prove that invariant complex structures correspond to shear-free geodesic congruences. Such congruences exist in abundance and so provide a tool for constructing interesting selfdual geometries with symmetry, unifying the theories of scalar-flat Kähler metrics and hypercomplex structures with symmetry. We also show that in the presence...