The Hitchin Image in Type-D

Abstract

Motivated by their appearance as Coulomb branch geometries of Class S theories, we study the image of the local Hitchin map in tame Hitchin systems of type-D with residue in a special nilpotent orbit ${\mathcal{O}}_H$. We describe two important features which distinguish it from the type A case studied in arXiv:2008.01020. The first feature, which we term even type constraints, arise iff the partition label $[{\mathcal{O}}_H]$ has even parts. In this case, our Hitchin image is non-singular and thus different from the one studied by Baraglia and Kamgarpour. We argue that our Hitchin image always globalizes to being the Hitchin base of an integrable system. The second feature, which we term odd type constraints, is related to a particular finite group ${\overline{A}}_b({\mathcal{O}}_H)$ being non-trivial. When this finite group is non-trivial, we have $\mid {\overline{A}}_b\mid$ choices for the local Hitchin base. Additionally, we also show that the finite group ${\overline{A}}_b({\mathcal{O}}_H)$ encodes the size of the dual special piece.

arXiv commentRevisions to Section 4.2. The precise conditions for part (i) of Theorem 2 are corrected and the Proof of the Theorem improved

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