Topological mirror symmetry for parabolic Higgs bundles (Q2633466)

The aim of this paper is to prove the topological mirror symmetry conjecture of \textit{T. Hausel} and \textit{M. Thaddeus} [C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. I, Math. 333, No. 4, 313--318 (2001; Zbl 1009.14005); Invent. Math. 153, No. 1, 197--229 (2003; Zbl 1043.14011)] for the moduli space of strongly parabolic Higgs bundles of rank two and three, with full flags, for any generic weights. Although the main theorem is proved only for rank at most three, most of the results are proved for any prime rank. This paper is organized as follows: Section 1 is an introduction to the subject. Section 2 reviews basic facts about parabolic Higgs bundles and their moduli. The authors also recall how in the parabolic setting moduli spaces for different degrees $d$ are isomorphic (with a change inparabolic weights). In Section 3 they recall the SYZ mirror symmetry result for the parabolic Hitchin system, review the stringy $E$-polynomials, describe the topological mirror symmetry conjecture of Hausel-Thaddeus, and state and prove their result. Section 4 is devoted to the calculation of the contribution to the variant part of the $E$-polynomial of the $\mathrm{SL}(n, \mathbb{C})$-modulispace arising only from the \(C^\ast\)-fixed point loci of type \((1,1,\dots,1)\). In Section 5 the authors recall some classical results on Prym varieties of unramified covers. These are used in Section 6, where the contribution from the fixed point loci of non-trivial elements of the group $\Gamma_n$ (of $n$-torsion points of $\mathrm{Pic}^0(X)$ with $X$ a Riemann surface) to the stringy E-polynomial of $\mathrm{PGL}(n, \mathbb{C})$-moduli space is calculated.