Quantum curves for Hitchin fibrations and the Eynard-Orantin theory

preprint2014arXivOpen access

Abstract

We generalize the topological recursion of Eynard-Orantin (2007) to the family of spectral curves of Hitchin fibrations. A spectral curve in the topological recursion, which is defined to be a complex plane curve, is replaced with a generic curve in the cotangent bundle T∗CT^*C of an arbitrary smooth base curve CC. We then prove that these spectral curves are quantizable, using the new formalism. More precisely, we construct the canonical generators of the formal ℏ\hbar-deformation family of DD-modules over an arbitrary projective algebraic curve CC of genus greater than 11, from the geometry of a prescribed family of smooth Hitchin spectral curves associated with the SL(2,C)SL(2,\mathbb{C})-character variety of the fundamental group π1(C)π_1(C). We show that the semi-classical limit through the WKB approximation of these ℏ\hbar-deformed DD-modules recovers the initial family of Hitchin spectral curves.

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