Parabolic bundles and parahoric bundles

V. Balaji
Abstract
The aim of the talk is to outline a classical study starting from Weil-Seshadri. We study representations of certain Fuchsian groups (discrete subgroups of SL(2,R) plus some conditions) in unitary groups and interpret the equivalence class of such Representations in terms of geometric objects on the Riemann surface obtained by quotient the upper half-space modulo the Fuchsian group. Generalizations of this question to representations into maximal compacts of semisimple algebraic groups lead to surprising consequences.