Langlands duality for Hitchin systems (Q453347)

Hitchin's system is an integrable system depending on a complex reductive group \(G\) and a compact Riemann surface \(C\), introduced by Nigel J. Hitchin in 1987 [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., III. Ser. 55, 59--126 (1987; Zbl 0634.53045)]. The definition involves semistable \(K_C\)-valued principal \(G\)-Higgs bundles on \(C\) where \(K_C \to C\) is the canonical bundle. It is proven that Hitchin's system for \(G\) is dual to Hitchin's system for the Langlands dual group \(^LG\). This statement can be interpreted at several levels. One of them is an equivalence of the derived categories of \(\mathbf{Higgs}\) and \(^L\mathbf{Higgs}\).