Stacky dualities for the moduli of Higgs bundles

Richard Derryberry

Published 2018-10-01Version 1

The central result of this paper is an identification of the shifted Cartier dual of the moduli stack $\mathcal{M}_{\mathfrak{g}}(C)$ of $\widetilde{G}$-Higgs bundles on $C$ of arbitrary degree (modulo shifts by $Z(\widetilde{G})$) with a quotient of the Langlands dual stack $\mathcal{M}_{^L\mathfrak{g}}(C)$. Via hyperk\"ahler rotation, this may equivalently be viewed as the identification of an SYZ fibration relating Hitchin systems for arbitrary Langlands dual semisimple groups, coupled to nontrivial finite $B$-fields. As a corollary certain self-dual stacks $\frac{\mathcal{M}_{\mathfrak{g}}(C)}{\Gamma}$ are observed to exist, which I conjecture to be the Coulomb branches for the 3d reduction of the 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories of class $\mathcal{S}$.