The P=W conjecture for Higgs and Betti moduli spaces

Let GG) be a reductive group, and let MHM_\mathrm{H} and MBM_\mathrm{B} be the corresponding Hitchin and Betti moduli spaces for a curve CC. Let h:MHAdh:M_\mathrm{H}\to\mathbb{A}^d be the Hitchin map, and let PP_\bullet denote the perverse Leray filtration on Hk(MH;Q)H^k(M_\mathrm{H};\mathbb{Q}) induced by RhQMHRh_*\mathbb{Q}_{M_\mathrm{H}}. Let WW_\bullet denote the weight filtration on Hk(MB;Q)H^k(M_\mathrm{B};\mathbb{Q}). The P=W conjecture. For all jj and kk,

W2j2Hk(MB;Q)=W2j1Hk(MB;Q)=Pj1Hk(MH;Q).W_{2j-2}H^k(M_\mathrm{B};\mathbb{Q})=W_{2j-1}H^k(M_\mathrm{B};\mathbb{Q})=P_{j-1}H^k(M_\mathrm{H};\mathbb{Q}).

This predicts that the weight filtration on the Betti moduli space agrees with the perverse Leray filtration associated with the Hitchin fibration. It has been proved for G=SL2(C)G=\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{C}), GL2(C)\mathrm{GL}_2(\mathbb{C}), and PGL2(C)\mathrm{PGL}_2(\mathbb{C}), but remains open in general.

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Andrew Harder, “Torus fibers and the weight filtration”, arXiv:1908.05110 (2019).

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