Automorphisms of moduli spaces of principal bundles over a smooth curve

Abstract

For any almost-simple group [Formula: see text] over an algebraically closed field [Formula: see text] of characteristic zero, we describe the automorphism group of the moduli space of semistable [Formula: see text]-bundles over a connected smooth projective curve [Formula: see text] of genus at least [Formula: see text]. The result is achieved by studying the singular fibers of the Hitchin fibration. As a byproduct, we provide a description of the irreducible components of two natural closed subsets in the Hitchin basis: the divisor of singular cameral curves and the divisor of singular Hitchin fibers.