On the Hitchin system

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-96-08525-7zbMATH Open0879.14010arXivalg-geom/9410015MaRDI QIDQ674641FDOQ674641

Bert van Geemen, Emma Previato

Publication date: 28 May 1997

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Hitchin system is a completely integrable hamiltonian system (CIHS) on the cotangent space to the moduli space of semi-stable vector bundles over a curve. We consider the case of rank-two vector bundles with trivial determinant. Such a bundle $E$ defines a divisor $D_E$ in the Jacobian of the curve and for any smooth point of $D_E$ we define a cotangent vector (a Higgs field). The Hitchin map on these Higgs fields is then determined in terms of the Gauss map on the divisor $D_E$. We apply the results to the $g=2$ case and show how Hitchin's system is related to classical line geometry in $P{P}^3$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9410015

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zbMATH Keywords

Higgs fieldsemistable bundleHitchin systemsalgebraically completely integrable Hamiltonian systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10)

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