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arXiv · 2606.05794

Higher order isomonodromic deformation of Higgs bundles and a characterization of the non-abelian Noether-Lefschetz locus

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to establish a local theory of the non-abelian Noether--Lefschetz locus. Given a family of projective manifolds over a complex variety $S$, the isomonodromic deformation of the initial $\mathbb C$-PVHS defines a holomorphic family of flat bundles and defines a real analytic family of Higgs bundles by the non-abelian Hodge correspondence. The non-abelian Noether--Lefschetz locus exactly consists of those points in $S$ on which the isomonodromic deformed Higgs bundle underlies a graded structure. Esnault-Kerz ask whether the non-abelian Noether--Lefschetz locus is precisely the maximal complex analytic subvariety on which the real analytic isomonodromic deformation of Higgs bundles becomes holomorphic. Our main result gives an affirmative answer to this question. The proof is based on the deformation equation of the harmonic metric solved by the non-abelian Hodge correspondence, and we use it to study higher order deformation class of the isomonodromic deformation of a graded Higgs bundle, which is expressed in terms of the differential graded Lie algebra of the joint real analytic deformation. We introduce a sequence of obstruction classes measuring the failure of holomorphicity and show that their vanishing forces the graded structure to lift to arbitrary finite order. This yields a local characterization of the non-abelian Noether--Lefschetz locus in terms of the holomorphicity of the isomonodromic deformation of Higgs bundles.

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Tianzhi Hu, Ruiran Sun, Jinbang Yang, Kang Zuo. 2026-07-17. Higher order isomonodromic deformation of Higgs bundles and a characterization of the non-abelian Noether-Lefschetz locus. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05794

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