Monodromy of the SL(n) and GL(n) Hitchin fibrations

DOI10.1007/S00208-017-1611-6zbMATH Open1388.14101arXiv1612.01583OpenAlexW3100548889MaRDI QIDQ1709780FDOQ1709780

Authors: David Baraglia 

Publication date: 6 April 2018

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We compute the monodromy of the Hitchin fibration for the moduli space of $L$-twisted $SL(n,mathbbC)$ and $GL(n,mathbbC)$-Higgs bundles for any $n$, on a compact Riemann surface of genus $g>1$. We require the line bundle $L$ to either be the canonical bundle or satisfy $deg(L)>2g-2$. The monodromy group is generated by Picard-Lefschetz transformations associated to vanishing cycles of singular spectral curves. We construct such vanishing cycles explicitly and use this to show that the $SL(n,mathbbC)$ monodromy group is a {em skew-symmetric vanishing lattice} in the sense of Janssen. Using the classification of vanishing lattices over $mathbbZ$, we completely determine the structure of the monodromy groups of the $SL(n,mathbbC)$ and $GL(n,mathbbC)$ Hitchin fibrations. As an application we determine the image of the restriction map from the cohomology of the moduli space of Higgs bundles to the cohomology of a non-singular fibre of the Hitchin fibration.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.01583

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zbMATH Keywords

integrable systemsvector bundlesmonodromymoduliHitchin fibration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.) (14D05) Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70)

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