Monodromy of Rank 2 Parabolic Hitchin Systems
arXiv:1906.03740
Abstract
We study the monodromy of the Hitchin fibration for moduli spaces of parabolic G-Higgs bundles in the cases when G=SL(2,R), GL(2,R) and PGL(2,R) A calculation of the orbits of the monodromy with Z2-coefficients provides an exact count of the components of the moduli spaces for these groups.