On the Hitchin System

dc.creatorvan Geemen, Bert
dc.creatorPreviato, Emma
dc.date1994-10-14
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:06:14Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:06:14Z
dc.descriptionThe 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 $D_E$ in the Jacobian of the curve and for any smooth point of $D_E$ 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 $D_E$. We apply the results to the $g=2$ case and show how Hitchin's system is related to classical line geometry in $\PP^3$.
dc.description23 pages, LaTeX Version 2.09 <7 Dec 1989>
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9410015
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9410015
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/149935
dc.subjectAlgebraic Geometry
dc.titleOn the Hitchin System
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