Multiplicative Hitchin fibrations and Langlands duality (2509.14364v1)

Abstract: We identify pairs of (twisted) multiplicative Hitchin fibrations which are "dual" in the sense that their bases are identified and their generic fibres are dual Beilinson $1$-motives. More precisely, we match the following: (1) an untwisted multiplicative Hitchin fibration associated with a simply-laced semisimple group $G$ with an untwisted multiplicative Hitchin fibration associated with the Langlands dual group $G^\vee$; (2) a twisted multiplicative Hitchin fibration associated with a simply-laced and simply-connected semisimple group $G$, without factors of type $\mathsf{A}{2\ell}$, and a diagram automorphism $\theta \in \mathrm{Aut}(G)$ with an untwisted multiplicative Hitchin fibration associated with the Langlands dual group $H^\vee$ of the invariant group $H=G^\theta$; (3) two twisted multiplicative Hitchin fibrations associated with $G=\mathrm{SL}{2\ell +1}$ and two special automophisms of order $2$ and $4$, respectively. These results are consistent with a conjecture of Elliott and Pestun (arXiv:1812.05516).