Generic Ends of the Moduli Space of $SL(n,\mathbb{C})$-Higgs Bundles

Abstract

Given a generic ray of Higgs bundles $({\overline{\partial }}_E,t\phi )$, we describe the corresponding family of hermitian metrics $h_t$ solving Hitchin's equations via gluing methods. In the process, we construct a family of approximate solutions $h_t^{\mathrm{app}}$ which differ from the actual harmonic metrics $h_t$ by error terms of size ${\mathrm{e}}^{-\delta t}$. Such families of explicit approximate solutions have already proved useful for answering finer questions about the asymptotic geometry of the Hitchin moduli space.