Hitchin fibrations on moduli of irregular Higgs bundles and motivic wall-crossing (Q2421345)

The aim of this paper is to give a complete description of the Hitchin fibration on all \(2\)-dimensional moduli spaces of rank-\(2\) irregular Higgs bundles with two poles on the projective line. The authors describe the dependence of the singular fibers of the fibration on the eigenvalues of the Higgs fields, and describe the corresponding motivic wall-crossing phenomenon in the parameter space of parabolic weights. The paper is organized as follows. Section 1 is an introduction to the subject. In Section 2, the authors provide the full statements of the main theorem: Theorem. In each case there is a precise formula in terms of the complex parameters of the polar part of the Higgs field which determines the class in the Grothendieck ring of varieties of all individual singular fibers of the Hitchin fibration. In Section 3, they collect some material about irregular Higgs bundles, their moduli spaces, the analog of Hitchin's fibration in this setup and the Grothendieck ring of varieties. In Section 4, they discuss some general properties of elliptic fibrations on rational elliptic surfaces. In Sections 5 and 6, they carry out a complete analysis of the singular fibers of the elliptic fibrations obtained from an elliptic pencil on a Hirzebruch surface, in terms of the parameters specifying their base locus. Finally, in Sections 7, 8, 9 and 10, the authors determine the families of torsion-free sheaves supported on the singular curves giving rise to \(\overrightarrow{\alpha}\)-(semi-)stable irregular Higgs bundles where \(\overrightarrow{\alpha}=(\alpha_+^1,\alpha_-^1,\alpha_+^2,\alpha_-^2)\), \(\alpha_i^j\in[0,1)\), \(j\in\{1,2\}\) and \(i\in\{+,-\}\).