Spaces of Abelian Differentials and Hitchin’s Spectral Covers

Using the embedding of the moduli space of generalized $GL(n)$ Hitchin’s spectral covers to the moduli space of meromorphic Abelian differentials we study the variational formulæ of the period matrix, the canonical bidifferential, the prime form and the Bergman tau function. This leads to residue formulæ which generalize the Donagi–Markman formula for variations of the period matrix. The computation of second derivatives of the period matrix reproduces the formula derived in [2] using the framework of topological recursion.

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