The Beauville-Narasimhan-Ramanan correspondence for twisted Higgs $V$-bundles and components of parabolic $\text{Sp}(2n,\mathbb{R})$-Higgs moduli Spaces

Abstract

We generalize the classical Beauville-Narasimhan-Ramanan correspondence to the case of parabolic Higgs bundles with regular singularities and Higgs $V$-bundles. Using this correspondence along with Bott-Morse theoretic techniques we provide an exact component count for moduli spaces of maximal parabolic $\text{Sp}\left(2n,\mathbb{R}\right)$-Higgs bundles with fixed parabolic structure.

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