Motivic Donaldson-Thomas invariants of parabolic Higgs bundles and parabolic connections on a curve (Q2217945)

For \(X\) a smooth projective curve over a field of characteristic zero and \(D\) a non-empty set of rational points of \(X\), the authors calculate the motivic classes of moduli stacks of semistable parabolic bundles with connections on \((X,D)\) and motivic classes of moduli stacks of semistable parabolic Higgs bundles on \((X,D)\). As a by-product they give a criterium for non-emptiness of these moduli stacks, which can be viewed as a version of the Deligne-Simpson problem. The latter is stated as follows: Give necessary and sufficient conditions on the choice of the \((p+1)\)-tuple of conjugacy classes \(C_j\subset \mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{C})\) so that there exist irreducible \((p+1)\)-tuples of matrices \(M_j\in C_j\) such that \(M_1\cdots M_{p+1}=I_n\), where \(I_n\) is the identity matrix.