Monodromy of the SL_2 Hitchin fibration

Abstract

We calculate the monodromy action on the mod 2 cohomology for SL(2,C) Hitchin systems and give an application of our results in terms of the moduli space of semistable SL(2,R) Higgs bundles.

17 pages, 3 figures. v2: Version to appear in IJM

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