Flat parabolic vector bundles on elliptic curves (Q1985538): Difference between revisions

Let \(C\) be an elliptic curve. The authors study pairs \((E, \nabla)\) where \(E\) is a rank two bundle over \(C\) and \(\nabla \colon E \to E \otimes \Omega^1_C (D)\) a logarithmic connection with poles along a reduced effective divisor \(D = t_1 + \cdots + t_n\). For fixed \(\nu = ( \nu_1^\pm , \ldots \nu_n^\pm )\), there is a moduli space \(\mathrm{Con}^\nu (C, D)\) for equivalence classes of semistable pairs \((E, \nabla)\) (see [\textit{N. Nitsure}, J. Am. Math. Soc. 6, No. 3, 597--609 (1993; Zbl 0807.14007)]), which furthermore admits a symplectic structure [\textit{P. Boalch}, Adv. Math. 163, No. 2, 137--205 (2001; Zbl 1001.53059)]. Such a pair \((E, \nabla)\) induces a structure of parabolic bundle \[ (E, \mathbf{p} ) \ := \ \left( E, (\mathbf{p}_1^+ , \ldots , \mathbf{p}_n^+ ) \right) \] on \(E\) where \(\mathbf{p}_k^+ \subset E|_{t_k}\) is a choice of eigenspace corresponding to the eigenvalue \(\nu_k^+\). The first main result is that \((E, \mathbf{p})\) is induced by a connection \(\nabla\) as above if and only if any parabolic direct summand has parabolic degree zero. For elliptic curves, this gives a generalisation of Weil's famous criterion for the existence of holomorphic connections, and Biswas' generalisation [\textit{I. Biswas}, Adv. Geom. 2, No. 3, 231--241 (2002; Zbl 1013.14010)] for logarithmic connections on parabolic bundles with rational weights. A corollary is a criterion for indecomposability valid for a generic choice of parabolic weights. Now suppose \(D = t_1 + t_2\). The authors recall a description from [\textit{N. F. Vargas}, ``Geometry of the moduli of parabolic bundles on elliptic curves'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1611.05417}] of the moduli space of rank two bundles of determinant \({\mathcal O}_C (w)\) with simple parabolic structure at \(D\), as the disjoint union of two copies \(X_<\) and \(X_>\) of \(\mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1\) identified outside of a curve isomorphic to \(C\). Using this together with tools given by Higgs bundles, \(\mathfrak{sl}_2\)-Fuchsian systems and elementary transformations, the authors give a series of explicit results on the geometry of the moduli space \(\mathrm{Con}^\nu (C, D)\), including a detailed birational description. The symplectic structure on an open set \(\mathrm{Con}^\nu_< (C, D)\) is written explicitly, and used to recover the eigenvalues \(\nu_1\), \(\nu_2\) in a Torelli-type statement.