On the Hitchin system

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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 DE in the Jacobian of the curve and for any smooth point of DE 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 DE. We apply the results to the g=2 case and show how Hitchin's system is related to classical line geometry in PP3.









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