Hitchin fibration

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The Hitchin fibration is a fundamental geometric structure in the theory of Higgs bundles that organizes their moduli space into an algebraically completely integrable system with deep connections to representation theory and the geometric Langlands program.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf algebraically completely integrable system
fibration
geometric structure
actsOn moduli space of Higgs bundles
baseDimension half the dimension of the Higgs moduli space
codomain Hitchin base identified with space of invariant polynomials valued differentials
constructedFrom characteristic polynomial of the Higgs field
invariant polynomials of a complex reductive Lie algebra
context complex reductive algebraic group G
smooth projective algebraic curve over complex numbers
definedOn moduli space of semistable Higgs bundles
moduli space of stable Higgs bundles
describedIn Stable bundles and integrable systems (Hitchin, 1987) NERFINISHED
domain moduli space of G-Higgs bundles on a smooth projective curve
dualTo Hitchin fibration for Langlands dual group NERFINISHED
field algebraic geometry
differential geometry
mathematical physics
representation theory
genericFiberDimension half the dimension of the Higgs moduli space
hasBase Hitchin base NERFINISHED
hasComponent discriminant locus where spectral curve is singular
hasFiber generic fiber is a Jacobian of a spectral curve
generic fiber is a Prym variety in the non-simply connected case
generic fiber is an abelian variety
hasGeneralization parabolic Hitchin fibration
wild Hitchin fibration
hasProperty algebraically completely integrable
base is an affine space
completely integrable Hamiltonian system
defines an integrable system on the moduli of Higgs bundles
fibers are Lagrangian with respect to natural symplectic form
generic fibers are torsors under abelian varieties
hasSymmetry action of the Picard stack of the spectral curve
inspired subsequent work on integrable systems from moduli spaces
introducedBy Nigel Hitchin NERFINISHED
introducedIn 1987
mapType Lagrangian fibration
algebraic map
proper map
namedAfter Nigel Hitchin NERFINISHED
relatedTo Dolbeault moduli space NERFINISHED
Higgs bundle
S-duality in gauge theory
geometric Langlands program NERFINISHED
mirror symmetry
moduli of local systems
non-abelian Hodge theory
usedIn construction of Hecke eigensheaves
proofs and formulations of geometric Langlands duality

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Nigel Hitchin notableFor Hitchin fibration