The Algebraic and Analytic Compactifications of the Hitchin Moduli Space

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Main Authors: He, Siqi, Mazzeo, Rafe, Na, Xuesen, Wentworth, Richard
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author He, Siqi
Mazzeo, Rafe
Na, Xuesen
Wentworth, Richard
author_facet He, Siqi
Mazzeo, Rafe
Na, Xuesen
Wentworth, Richard
contents Following the work of Mazzeo-Swoboda-Weiss-Witt and Mochizuki, there is a map $\overlineΞ$ between the algebraic compactification of the Dolbeault moduli space of $\mathsf{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$ Higgs bundles on a smooth projective curve coming from the $\mathbb{C}^\ast$ action, and the analytic compactification of Hitchin's moduli space of solutions to the $\mathsf{SU}(2)$ 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 $\overlineΞ$ 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.
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spellingShingle The Algebraic and Analytic Compactifications of the Hitchin Moduli Space
He, Siqi
Mazzeo, Rafe
Na, Xuesen
Wentworth, Richard
Differential Geometry
32G13, 53C07 (primary), 14D20 (secondary)
Following the work of Mazzeo-Swoboda-Weiss-Witt and Mochizuki, there is a map $\overlineΞ$ between the algebraic compactification of the Dolbeault moduli space of $\mathsf{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$ Higgs bundles on a smooth projective curve coming from the $\mathbb{C}^\ast$ action, and the analytic compactification of Hitchin's moduli space of solutions to the $\mathsf{SU}(2)$ 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 $\overlineΞ$ 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.
title The Algebraic and Analytic Compactifications of the Hitchin Moduli Space
topic Differential Geometry
32G13, 53C07 (primary), 14D20 (secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08198