Applications of the Liouville symplectic form on the cotangent bundle of a loop group

Abstract

Let $G$ be a semisimple, simply connected, affine algebraic group defined over $\mathbb C$. Consider the Liouville symplectic structure on the total space $T^*G((t))$ of the cotangent bundle of the loop group $G((t))$, where $t$ is a formal parameter. We show that the Liouville symplectic structure on $T^*G((t))$ induces the symplectic structures on the moduli stack of framed principal Higgs $G$-bundles on a compact connected Riemann surface $X$ and also on the moduli spaces of framed $G$-connections on $X$. Similar symplectic structures -- on the moduli stack of framed principal Higgs $G$-bundles, with finite order framing, and also framed connections on $X$, with finite order framing -- were constructed earlier by various authors. Our results show that they all have a common origin.