Surjectivity conjecture for the Hitchin morphism onto the postulated image

Let XX be a proper smooth algebraic variety over an algebraically closed field kk of characteristic zero, let MX\mathcal{M}_X be the moduli stack of Higgs bundles, and let BX\mathcal{B}_X be the postulated image of the Hitchin morphism hX:MXAXh_X:\mathcal{M}_X\to\mathcal{A}_X. Fiber non-emptiness conjecture. For every bBX(k)b\in\mathcal{B}_X(k), the fiber

hX1(b)h_X^{-1}(b)

is non-empty. Thus every geometric point of the postulated image should be realized by a Higgs bundle; the source gives no resolution.

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Tsao-Hsien Chen and Ngo Bao Chau, “On the Hitchin morphism for higher dimensional varieties”, arXiv:1905.04741 (2019).

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