Topological recursion and variations of spectral curves for twisted Higgs bundles

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Main Authors: Mahadeo, Christopher, Rayan, Steven
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Rayan, Steven
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Rayan, Steven
contents Prior works relating meromorphic Higgs bundles to topological recursion, in particular those of Dumitrescu-Mulase, have considered non-singular models that allow the recursion to be carried out on a smooth Riemann surface. We start from an $\mathcal{L}$-twisted Higgs bundle for some fixed holomorphic line bundle $\mathcal{L}$ on the surface. We decorate the Higgs bundle with the choice of a section $s$ of $K^*\otimes\mathcal{L}$, where $K$ is the canonical line bundle, and then encode this data as a $b$-structure on the base Riemann surface which lifts to the associated Hitchin spectral curve. We then propose a so-called twisted topological recursion on the spectral curve, after which the corresponding Eynard-Orantin differentials live in a twisted cotangent bundle. This formulation retains, and interacts explicitly with, the singular structure of the original meromorphic setting -- equivalently, the zero divisor of $s$ -- while performing the recursion. Finally, we show that the $g=0$ twisted Eynard-Orantin differentials compute the Taylor expansion of the period matrix of the spectral curve, mirroring a result of Baraglia-Huang for ordinary Higgs bundles and topological recursion. Starting from the spectral curve as a polynomial form in an affine coordinate rather than a Higgs bundle, our result implies that, under certain conditions on $s$, the expansion is independent of the ambient space $\mbox{Tot}(\mathcal{L})$ in which the curve is interpreted to reside.
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spellingShingle Topological recursion and variations of spectral curves for twisted Higgs bundles
Mahadeo, Christopher
Rayan, Steven
Algebraic Geometry
Mathematical Physics
Complex Variables
Differential Geometry
Symplectic Geometry
14D20, 70H06, 14A21
Prior works relating meromorphic Higgs bundles to topological recursion, in particular those of Dumitrescu-Mulase, have considered non-singular models that allow the recursion to be carried out on a smooth Riemann surface. We start from an $\mathcal{L}$-twisted Higgs bundle for some fixed holomorphic line bundle $\mathcal{L}$ on the surface. We decorate the Higgs bundle with the choice of a section $s$ of $K^*\otimes\mathcal{L}$, where $K$ is the canonical line bundle, and then encode this data as a $b$-structure on the base Riemann surface which lifts to the associated Hitchin spectral curve. We then propose a so-called twisted topological recursion on the spectral curve, after which the corresponding Eynard-Orantin differentials live in a twisted cotangent bundle. This formulation retains, and interacts explicitly with, the singular structure of the original meromorphic setting -- equivalently, the zero divisor of $s$ -- while performing the recursion. Finally, we show that the $g=0$ twisted Eynard-Orantin differentials compute the Taylor expansion of the period matrix of the spectral curve, mirroring a result of Baraglia-Huang for ordinary Higgs bundles and topological recursion. Starting from the spectral curve as a polynomial form in an affine coordinate rather than a Higgs bundle, our result implies that, under certain conditions on $s$, the expansion is independent of the ambient space $\mbox{Tot}(\mathcal{L})$ in which the curve is interpreted to reside.
title Topological recursion and variations of spectral curves for twisted Higgs bundles
topic Algebraic Geometry
Mathematical Physics
Complex Variables
Differential Geometry
Symplectic Geometry
14D20, 70H06, 14A21
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06694