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Principal G-bundles and abelian varieties: the Hitchin system

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  • Apr 2007

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Part of the book series: Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore (PSNS)

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Keywords

  • Hamiltonian systems
  • spectral curves

About this book

During the past 20 years spectral curves have proved to be a successful geometrical tool for studying a large number of Hamiltonian systems. In 1987 Hitchin applied the theory of spectral curves, considering the moduli space of stable principal G-bundles over a compact Riemann surface C and used spectral curves to describe the cotangent bundle T*M as an “algebraically completely integrable Hamiltonian system”, defining an analytic map H:T*M->K, where K is a suitable vector space. In this work we provide an explicit description of the generic fibres of H in term of both generalized Prym varieties and Prym-Tjurin varieties in the Jacobian of suitable spectral curves.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Principal G-bundles and abelian varieties: the Hitchin system

  • Authors: Renata Scognamillo

  • Series Title: Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore

  • Publisher: Edizioni della Normale Pisa

  • Copyright Information: Edizioni della Normale 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-88-7642-281-2Due: 01 October 1998

  • Series ISSN: 2239-1460

  • Series E-ISSN: 2532-1668

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 49

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