Abelianization of the $\operatorname{SL}_2$ Hitchin connection at level four

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Main Authors: Baier, Thomas, Bolognesi, Michele, Martens, Johan, Pauly, Christian
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author Baier, Thomas
Bolognesi, Michele
Martens, Johan
Pauly, Christian
author_facet Baier, Thomas
Bolognesi, Michele
Martens, Johan
Pauly, Christian
contents We prove that the Hitchin connection for $\operatorname{SL}_2$ at level four can be understood in terms of the Mumford-Welters connections on bundles of abelian theta functions for Prym torsors of all unramified double covers, and use this to show that its monodromy is finite. This builds on earlier works, for individual curves, of the last named author with Oxbury and Ramanan. The key ingredients in making this work on the level of connections are equivariant conformal embeddings, and anti-invariant level-rank duality.
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spellingShingle Abelianization of the $\operatorname{SL}_2$ Hitchin connection at level four
Baier, Thomas
Bolognesi, Michele
Martens, Johan
Pauly, Christian
Algebraic Geometry
Geometric Topology
14D20, 14H60, 14F05, 58J52, 57R56
We prove that the Hitchin connection for $\operatorname{SL}_2$ at level four can be understood in terms of the Mumford-Welters connections on bundles of abelian theta functions for Prym torsors of all unramified double covers, and use this to show that its monodromy is finite. This builds on earlier works, for individual curves, of the last named author with Oxbury and Ramanan. The key ingredients in making this work on the level of connections are equivariant conformal embeddings, and anti-invariant level-rank duality.
title Abelianization of the $\operatorname{SL}_2$ Hitchin connection at level four
topic Algebraic Geometry
Geometric Topology
14D20, 14H60, 14F05, 58J52, 57R56
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13307