The Algebraic and Analytic Compactifications of the Hitchin Moduli Space

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Authors: Siqi He, Rafe Mazzeo, Xuesen Na, Richard A. Wentworth 

Publication date: 17 April 2023

Abstract: Following the work of Mazzeo-Swoboda-Weiss-Witt and Mochizuki, there is a map $overlineXi$ between the algebraic compactification of the Dolbeault moduli space of $mathsfSL(2,mathbbC)$ Higgs bundles on a smooth projective curve coming from the $mathbb{C}^{a}st$ action, and the analytic compactification of Hitchin's moduli space of solutions to the $mathsfSU(2)$ self-duality equations on a Riemann surface obtained by adding solutions to the decoupled equations, known as ``limiting configurations. This map extends the classical Kobayashi-Hitchin correspondence. The main result of this paper is that $overlineXi$ fails to be continuous at the boundary over a certain subset of the discriminant locus of the Hitchin fibration. This suggests the possibility of a third, refined compactification which dominates both.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Complex-analytic moduli problems (32G13) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07)

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