On the L-infinity description of the Hitchin Map

Abstract

Recently, E.Martinengo obtained results on obstructions to deformations of Higgs pairs by describing an L-infinity morphism inducing the Hitchin map. In this note we show that analogous results hold for principal G-Higgs bundles, where G is a complex reductive group. We show that the L-infinity morphism has a Lie-algebraic analogue inducing the adjoint quotient morphism.