Integrable (2k)-Dimensional Hitchin Equations

Abstract

This letter describes a completely integrable system of Yang–Mills–Higgs equations which generalizes the Hitchin equations on a Riemann surface to arbitrary k-dimensional complex manifolds. The system arises as a dimensional reduction of a set of integrable Yang–Mills equations in 4k real dimensions. Our integrable system implies other generalizations such as the Simpson equations and the non-abelian Seiberg–Witten equations. Some simple solutions in the k = 2 case are described.