Symplectic Manifolds and Isomonodromic Deformations

Author: Boalch P.  

Publisher: Academic Press

ISSN: 0001-8708

Source: Advances in Mathematics, Vol.163, Iss.2, 2001-11, pp. : 137-205

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Abstract

We study moduli spaces of meromorphic connections (with arbitrary order poles) over Riemann surfaces together with the corresponding spaces of monodromy data (involving Stokes matrices). Natural symplectic structures are found and described both explicitly and from an infinite dimensional viewpoint (generalising the Atiyah–Bott approach). This enables us to give an intrinsic symplectic description of the isomonodromic deformation equations of Jimbo, Miwa and Ueno, thereby putting the existing results for the six Painlevé equations and Schlesinger's equations into a uniform framework.© 2001 Elsevier Science.