Hyperpolygons and Hitchin systems

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNV172MaRDI QIDQ2801966zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan M. Fisher, Steven Rayan

Publication date 22 April 2016

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6467

zbMATH Keywords

Higgs bundlesHitchin systemshyper-Kähler geometryhyperpolygonsquiver representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli (14J60) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26)

Abstract: We study the hyperk"ahler analogues of moduli spaces of semistable n-gons in complex projective space. We prove that the hyperk"ahler Kirwan map is surjective and produce a formula that recursively calculates the Betti numbers of these spaces for all ranks. Building on a natural analogy between hyperpolygons and parabolic Higgs bundles, we identify hyperpolygon spaces with certain degenerate Hitchin systems, and use this to establish their complete integrability, for ranks up to and including 3.

Review text

The authors consider hyperpolygon spaces which arise from moduli of representations of doubled star-shaped quivers. Hyperpolygon spaces are hyper-Kähler analogues of moduli spaces of semistable \(n\)-gons in complex projective space. They prove that the natural hyper-Kähler Kirwan map is surjective. The authors use equivariant Morse theory with the norm-square of a certain moment map to produce a recursive formula that calculates the Betti numbers of these spaces for all ranks. The hyper-Kähler geometry of hyperpolygon spaces is naturally related to the theory of Higgs bundles, and hence to Hitchin systems. The authors use this to establish the complete integrability of hyperpolygon spaces for ranks up to and including 3.

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