Hamiltonian representation of isomonodromic deformations of general rational connections on $\mathfrak{gl}_2(\mathbb{C})$
In this paper, we construct the Hamiltonian systems attached to generic $\mathfrak{gl}_2(\mathbb{C})$ meromorphic connections with an arbitrary number of unramified poles of arbitrary orders, under the assumption that every leading polar coefficient is regular semisimple. In particular, we propose the Lax pairs and Hamiltonian evolutions expressed in terms of irregular times and monodromies associated to the poles as well as $g$ pairs of Darboux coordinates defined as the apparent singularities arising in the oper gauge. Moreover, we also provide a reduction of the isomonodromic deformations to a subset of $g$ non-trivial isomonodromic deformations. This reduction is equivalent to a map reducing the set of irregular times to only $g$ non-trivial isomonodromic times. We apply our construction to all genus-one cases covered by these hypotheses and recover the standard Painlevé equations $2$--$6$. We finally make the connection with the topological recursion and the quantization of classical spectral curves from this perspective.