The Hitchin fibration under degenerations to noded Riemann surfaces (Q347132)

In this paper, the author describes some geometric aspects of the Hitchin fibration under two degenerations. The latter was defined in the paper with \textit{R. Mazzeo} et al. [Duke Math. J. 165, No. 12, 2227--2271 (2016; Zbl 1352.53018)]. Among other results, the author proves that if \(\Phi\) is a smooth Higgs field on the smooth family \(\Sigma_{R}\) of Riemann surfaces such that \(\det\Phi=q\), then there exists a limiting Higgs field \(\Phi_{\infty}\) of the same determinant \(q\), and for any such \(\Phi_{\infty}\) the line bundles \(L_{\Phi}\) and \(L_{\Phi_{\infty}}\) are isomorphic as complex vector bundles \(\Sigma_{R}\setminus(\det \Phi)^{-1}(0)\).