Infinite Analysis Seminar Tokyo

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Date, time & place Saturday 13:30 - 16:00 117Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)

2026/09/10

14:00-16:00   Room #123 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Motohico Mulase (UC Davis)
The SL(2) that relates Gaiotto's Conformal Limit and the Geometric Langlands Correspondence (English)
[ Abstract ]
The purpose of this talk is to show that Gaiotto's "conformal limit" construction of opers via the non-Abelian Hodge correspondence gives the same map that appears in the Geometric Langlands Correspondence for the case of opers. The resulting map is a unique canonical biholomorphic map from the moduli space of G-spectral curves to the moduli space of LG-opers, both defined over a smooth complex projective curve X with a complex simple algebraic group G and its Langlands dual LG.

The Structure of the Talk:
In the first hour of the talk I will present the main theorem and explain motivational materials, including:
・The differential equations interpreting the stability conditions in algebraic geometry of moduli spaces;
・Simpson's NAH map between the moduli spaces of Higgs bundles and connections on X;
・The moduli space of opers that forms a Lagrangian in the moduli space of local systems on X;
・From a spectral curve to an oper as a quantization procedure; and
・The idea of Gaiotto on taking a scaling limit of NAH that changes a transcendental topological map into a calculable algebraic map.

In the second hour, I will talk about the following subjects:
・The Geometric Langlands Correspondence for the case of opers due to Beilinson-Drinfeld;
・Kostant's TDS;
・The proof of Gaiotto's conformal limit for the case of sl(2);
・GLC for sl(2);
・The parallelism of these proofs going from sl(2) to the general case through Kostant's TDS.