Hitchin WKB local-estimate conjecture

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Let γ:[0,1]→X~∗\gamma:[0,1]\to\widetilde X^{\ast} be a noncritical path, meaning that the pullbacks γ∗Re⁡ϕi\gamma^{\ast}\operatorname{Re}\phi_i are distinct for every t∈[0,1]t\in[0,1], and order them so that

γ∗Re⁡ϕ1>γ∗Re⁡ϕ2>⋯>γ∗Re⁡ϕr.\gamma^{\ast}\operatorname{Re}\phi_1>\gamma^{\ast}\operatorname{Re}\phi_2>\cdots>\gamma^{\ast}\operatorname{Re}\phi_r.

Let hth_t denote the family of harmonic maps in the Hitchin WKB problem and let d→\overrightarrow d be vector distance. Hitchin WKB local-estimate conjecture. The same asymptotic estimate as in the classical WKB theorem should hold for the Hitchin WKB problem:

1td→(ht(γ(0)),ht(γ(1)))∼(α1,…,αr),\frac{1}{t}\overrightarrow d\bigl(h_t(\gamma(0)),h_t(\gamma(1))\bigr)\sim(\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_r),

where

αi=∫01γ∗Re⁡ϕi.\alpha_i=\int_0^1\gamma^{\ast}\operatorname{Re}\phi_i.

The preceding theorem establishes this estimate for the complex or Riemann--Hilbert WKB problem; the Hitchin version is stated as an expected extension and is not resolved in the source.

References

Primary source

Ludmil Katzarkov, Alexander Noll, Pranav Pandit and Carlos Simpson, “Harmonic Maps to Buildings and Singular Perturbation Theory”, arXiv:1311.7101 (2013).

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