Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 13 (2017), 072, 19 pages      arXiv:1704.04924      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2017.072

On the Automorphisms of a Rank One Deligne-Hitchin Moduli Space

Indranil Biswas ^a and Sebastian Heller ^b
a) School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400005, India
^b) Institut für Differentialgeometrie, Universität Hannover, Welfengarten 1, D-30167 Hannover, Germany

Received May 13, 2017, in final form September 01, 2017; Published online September 06, 2017

Abstract
Let $X$ be a compact connected Riemann surface of genus $g \geq 2$, and let ${\mathcal M}_{\rm DH}$ be the rank one Deligne-Hitchin moduli space associated to $X$. It is known that ${\mathcal M}_{\rm DH}$ is the twistor space for the hyper-Kähler structure on the moduli space of rank one holomorphic connections on $X$. We investigate the group $\operatorname{Aut}({\mathcal M}_{\rm DH})$ of all holomorphic automorphisms of ${\mathcal M}_{\rm DH}$. The connected component of $\operatorname{Aut}({\mathcal M}_{\rm DH})$ containing the identity automorphism is computed. There is a natural element of $H^2({\mathcal M}_{\rm DH}, {\mathbb Z})$. We also compute the subgroup of $\operatorname{Aut}({\mathcal M}_{\rm DH})$ that fixes this second cohomology class. Since ${\mathcal M}_{\rm DH}$ admits an ample rational curve, the notion of algebraic dimension extends to it by a theorem of Verbitsky. We prove that ${\mathcal M}_{\rm DH}$ is Moishezon.

Key words: Hodge moduli space; Deligne-Hitchin moduli space; $\lambda$-connections; Moishezon twistor space.

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